From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: Interested in contributing Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 07:21:31 -0400 Message-ID: <4AB36D3B.8080302@garzik.org> References: <4A948C4D.6080300@jquigley.com> <4A95666A.2060200@garzik.org> <4AB30DF2.6010200@jquigley.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4AB30DF2.6010200@jquigley.com> Sender: hail-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: John Quigley Cc: Project Hail On 09/18/2009 12:34 AM, John Quigley wrote: > Jeff Garzik wrote: >> The only other, minor detail I would add is to practice building from >> the git repository. These projects are definitely in the "heavy >> development" phase, and problems with release tarballs may have >> already been fixed in the git repo by the time someone gets around to >> reporting the bug. > > I'm doing all of my work, include build/test from your git repos; I'm > also building on Debian (testing), which I gather differs from your > folks' development environments (RH-based?). Pete and I are Fedora-based. I also test sporadically on FreeBSD 7 and OpenSolaris. > I have some (simple) libtool patches to your build system that allow for > Debian-based builds, given the more recent libtool packages. I assume > you'd want any and all such patches? Yes, please. Jeff