Re: [PATCH] Fix compiling on CentOS 7.

[Efraim Flashner]

On Sun, Aug 28, 2016 at 10:11:02AM +0200, Tomáš Čech wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 28, 2016 at 01:33:10AM +0200, Roel Janssen wrote:
> > 
> > Florian Paul Schmidt writes:
> > 
> > > On 08/27/2016 10:51 AM, Roel Janssen wrote:
> > > 
> > > > I don't see a way to apply this patch "on the CentOS side" except for
> > > > waiting (another two or three years) until they upgrade Automake.
> > > 
> > > When packaging guix for CentOS, just add a patch to the source package
> > > definition..
> > 
> > I do not intend to create an RPM package for CentOS, I am merely trying
> > to do the following:
> >  git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/guix.git
> >  cd guix
> >  ./bootstrap
> >  ./configure
> >  make
> 
> I see, I haven't thought about that...
> 
> But, in that case, wouldn't be creating guix RPM package for CentOS even
> more beneficial alternative (making it easy for all CentOS7 users...)?
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> S_W

That would require keeping it up-to-date. The Guix package in Nix got
removed by Ludo because it was so out of date, and our Parabola members
had to do quite a bit of troubleshooting in IRC to fix the AUR entry.
Diane/detrout put together a .deb for installing but I don't know that
anyone has actually tested it.

As far as old distros, there's also Debian old-stable and Ubuntu 12.04,
both of which have about a year left on their support. I don't know what
versions they have, but I'm sure its similarly old.


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