[Gluster-devel] python version

[Emmanuel Dreyfus]

On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 10:17:12AM -0400, Kaleb S. KEITHLEY wrote:
> The aclocal.m4 file is produced when (/usr/bin/)aclocal is invoked
> by ./autogen.sh file in preparation for building gluster. (You have
> to run autogen.sh to produce the ./configure file.)

Right, then my plan will not work, and the only way to fix the problem 
is to upgrade automake on the machine that produces the gluterfs 
releases.

> As a side note, I sampled a few currently shipping systems and see
> that the automake shipped with/for Fedora 16 and 17, FreeBSD 8.2 and
> 8.3, and NetBSD 5.1.2, is automake-1.11, which has all the
> appearances of supporting python 2.5 (and 3.0).

You seem to take for granted that people building a glusterfs 
release will run autotools before running configure. This is not
the way it should work: a released tarball should contain a 
configure script that works anywhere. The tarballs released up to
at least 3.3.0qa40 have a configure script that cannot detect python > 2.4

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Emmanuel Dreyfus
manu at netbsd.org