Troy Dawson wrote:
> Alex Owen wrote:
> ...
>> Please Please Please can we try and avoid this or at least document
>> simmilar issues for SL6???
>>
> ...
>
> Nothing we could do to avoid it.
Fair point!
Though it still seems that there is a binary (as opposed to source) bug
in the SL autoconf package if we are trying to match The Upstream Vendor
as evidenced elsewhere in this thread.
> Hopefully we *can* avoid it for SL6, but my real question is for the
> second half of your question.
Phew!
> If you were looking, where would you expect to find this documentation?
>
> That is always the hardest part of documentation, getting the document
> to the person who needs it.
>
> I can write up a m4 web page for SL5. Where would people expect it
> to be?
>
> And if there was something similar for SL6, where would people expect
> it to be?
Good point....
In this context perhaps in build system documentation.... how about here:
https://www.scientificlinux.org/documentation/buildsystem/SL5https://www.scientificlinux.org/documentation/buildsystem/SL6
Thanks
Alex Owen