stan wrote:

> I started a discussion about this the other day, and I am trying to work
> through this as a background task while doing the rest of the things i
> have to do. I thought I would point out what a PIA it is turning into to
> get newer version of Amanda compiled on older machines.
> 
> The glib dependency requires gettext. Also glib will not compile with
> older versions of GCC. Now GCC used to build pretty well on older
> machines, but it looks like the 4.x version of it now depends upon a
> couple of math packages gmp, an mpfr. So, to migrate a given client (HP-UX
> in this case) Howard, I am having to compile the following list of things
> that did not used to be dependencies:
> 
> gettext
> gmp
> mpfr
> gcc
> glub
> 
> That's a lot of stuff just to replace working code with "more
> maintainable" code IMHO.
> 
> I really think we need to come up with a plan that results in it being
> easier to comile clients on older machines. I have expressed my opinion
> that this needs to be a forkof a 2.5 branch, but I did not seem to get
> much in the way of buy in by others on this list ofr that. Does anyiine
> have a better plan?
> 
> 

I have numerous clients still running amanda 2.4.x clients and talking to my
2.6.1 server.  I would think that maintaining backward compatibility within
the amanda server is a more fruitful path than trying to build the latest
version on all sorts of older platforms.  Is there reason to believe that
older clients will become unsupported sometime soon?

Jeff Anderson
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab