[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sep 9, 2003, at 11:17 PM, Richard Sharpe wrote:

> Typically we know that the CVS tree builds on a range of UNIX-like
> platforms, including Linux, FreeBSD, perhaps Solaris, etc, but we do 
> not
> have a build-farm, so we can't guarantee that it builds on all 
> platforms.

...and there are many platforms to consider (see, for example, the list 
under

	http://www.ethereal.com/download.html#binaries

I don't know if the Written Word people would be willing to participate 
in the pre-release build process, but that might be useful.

The SourceForge Compile Farm:

	http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=762&group_id=1

might also be useful, although they don't have Slackware (which has 
occasionally been the source of build problems) or Gentoo - I don't 
know whether Mandrake is still sufficiently Red Hat-like that a Red Hat 
build should work.  They also don't have RH 8 or RH 9.  They have Mac 
OS X with Fink; I don't have Fink indtalled, so I could do a build to 
make sure the tarball builds without Fink.  (We should test the tarball 
- there might be differences between what CVS does and what the tarball 
does.)