[Planetlab-devel] building on f16

[Fiuczynski, Marc]

Hi Thierry,

>Just a status on a quick attempt I made with building on f16; this
>essentially is a braindump, moving to f16 is not high priority for me at
>this point but given that f14 was end-of-lived already it might make
>sense to follow up a bit on this track.

Wow.


>And in anticipation for remarks about fedora vs redhat, I'd like to state
>again that these changes will more or less inevitably show up in any of
>these distros, so IMHO it makes sense to try & address them :)

Touche.


>Feedback and comments on how to solve/workaround those is of course much
>appreciated
>
>* spec2make: at this point it looks like the python version might just do
>the trick
>
>* distributed rate limiting
>somehow configure sets a weird value to LDFLAGS
>LDFLAGS=-Wl,-z,relro
>which the loader does not recognize

Either Caglar or the folks at UCSD need to help out with this.

Marc