David Levine <levinedl(_at_)acm(_dot_)org> writes:
Bill wrote:
But going forward Ken might be open to putting a link on the home
page called "Snapshots" that points to some directory somewhere
where the nightly build-bot can deposit a tarball called
nmh-snapshot-<YYYYMMDD>>.tgz.
I expect that wouldn't be worth the effort, both initial and
ongoing.
And it should be very easy for a user to do this:
$ git clone git://git.savannah.nongnu.org/nmh.git
$ cd nmh
$ docs/contrib/build_nmh -di
though on CentOS 6 and maybe others, that requires
installing a newer (at least 2.68) autoconf. I don't know
what version of autoconf comes with CentOS 7.
Never mind, since what I was asking for was an amd64 binary snapshot,
but that is probably untenable.
Here's why:
It took over four weeks for me to do this very easy task on our CentOS 6
system. Fortunately, they had already installed some more modern
compilation tools, but not all.
1. Ask IT to install git. Go to CCB. Install.
2. Compile, notice that a library is missing.
3. Ask IT to install library. Go to CCB. Install.
4. Go to 2.
At any time, IT could have said no. Game over.
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