[Bro-Dev] Final Broker branch testing

[Johanna Amann]

On 27 Apr 2018, at 8:55, Robin Sommer wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 16:54 -0500, you wrote:
>
>> (1) Users whose OS has insufficient CMake will need to compile/obtain 
>> a  newer one.
>
>> (2) We go back to CMake 2.8.12 and have people compile CAF 
>> themselves.
>> (Or maybe we could conditionally require only 2.8.12 users to compile
>> CAF and others get the embedded CAF).
>
>> (3) I need to try to hack our CMake system more to try to get back 
>> down
>> to 2.8.12 while still being able to embed CAF.
>
> If there's something quick that ends up making (3) work, that'd be
> ideal of course, but I don't think it's worth spending much time on,
> given that there are reasonable ways to get a more recent cmake.
>
> I wouldn't want to go back to not shipping CAF at all, but if we can
> tell cmake that 2.8.12 is fine if users build CAF themselves, that
> would be the 2nd best option I think. (1) ist worst case, which still
> isn't too bad IMO, unless it does actually prevent us from building
> binary packages for RH, that would be a problem.
>

Yup, 2 would be ok I guess. One should still be able to just compile the 
CAF in the Bro subdirectory in that case, right?

1 I would rather avoid if possible.

Johanna