Re: [Monotone-devel] recent Botan changes?

[Thomas Moschny]

Am Tue, 26 Mar 2013 03:59:42 -0400
schrieb Stephen Leake <address@hidden>:

> I'm compiling monotone head on Red Hat 5.0 (for work); I need a recent
> fix I put in for drop/modified conflicts. 
> 
> The Red Hat repository does not have Botan (any version).

Botan is available for RHEL 5 and 6 via the EPEL[1] repository.

> I tried upgrading to Botan 1.10.5 (current as of today), but that
> fails at configure time with a Python syntax error. Red Hat 5.0 has
> Python 2.4.3, Botan 10.x apparently requires a later Python version.

Python 2.6.X is also available via EPEL, should be easier to try that
instead of compiling from sources.

> monotone configure says we support Botan > 1.6.3, which is apparently
> no longer true.

We should fix this then.

BTW, do you think it makes sense to backport the fix you mentioned to
0.42, the Monotone version provided via EPEL for RHEL5?

- Thomas

[1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL