[chord] Chord compile trouble

[Emil Sit]

Martin,

On Thu, 01 December 2005 at 13:16 (-0500), Martin Makowiecki wrote:
> version of chord.  If uncompatible versions are indeed the source of our 
> problems, could you tell us which linux distro, version of GCC, SFS and 
> Chord you recommend?  Below are the specifications of what we are 
> running and a more throughout error msg.   OS: Redhat linux (version 
> number?)
> 
> The versions of the tools we are usign are:
> Fedora Core 4
> GCC: 3.2.0
> SFS: 0.7.2
> BerkeleyDB: 4.4

Whether or not you run the latest CVS version of Chord depends
on your preference for bleeding edge versus more or less stable
code (from last year). 

The latest CVS version of SFS ought to work with any CVS version
of Chord in the past year or so.  In particular, it has the
back() method for rpc_vecs.  I'm not sure if SFS detects BerkeleyDB 4.4
though it is likely that it would work with that if linked against those
libraries and headers.  You may need to go to 4.3 or 4.2 for the
autoconf tools to detect it.  

Unfortunately, everything is a moving target and we have made
changes to get things to build with newer gccs.  gcc 3.2 should
be fine with today's codebase but maybe not with the one from
last October.

-- 
Emil Sit / MIT CSAIL PDOS / http://pdos.lcs.mit.edu/chord/