[Nut-upsdev] [nut-commits] buildbot failure in Network UPS Tools on FreeBSD-i686

[Charles Lepple]

On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 3:16 PM, Arjen de Korte <nut+devel at de-korte.org> wrote:
> I noticed that some BuildBots didn't complain about this, even though the
> strptime() function is not declared (see the config.log for openSUSE for
> instance). That made me wonder if there might be similarities between the
> ones complaining and the ones not complaining. Lo and behold, I found one!
> The BuildBots that don't complain, all have LIBNETSNMP_CFLAGS defined. Since
> the flags accumulate, these will be used for compiling *all* sources.

I was wondering about the extra *_CFLAGS variables, but I never
followed up on that. Good to know.

> As far as I can see, the only drawback would be that it ups the requirements
> for Autoconf to 2.60. This might be a problem for people that build from SVN
> on older systems. Mitigating factor is that they could instead use the
> tarballs we provide on the BuildBot and that we should make available
> through the website as well then.

We have always required somewhat recent versions of auto* tools for
building from SVN. I don't see the new version requirement as a
problem.

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- Charles Lepple