Impossible to install on Amazonlinux about watchman

[trey-jones]

I agree with you. I'm still using v4.9.0 because building the weekly releases seems to be more trouble than I have time for. It seems very locked into "works on my machine" at this point. As of 8/2023 getting 504 Gateway Timeout just trying to download Boost via autogen... Surely it could be easier for non-maintainers to make a build...

I know this isn't a helpful comment, I just don't know where else to offer feedback. Watchman was really good about 3 years ago.

[chadaustin]

The Linux binary release isn't guaranteed compatible with every distribution. It has libc version requirements, and may only work on a range of Ubuntu releases, as you found.

We don't have the bandwidth to support builds for the long tail of Linux distributions, but I wonder if you could play with the release actions and see if you can get it to build an Amazonlinux-compatible release in a Docker image:

https://github.com/facebook/watchman/blob/main/.github/workflows/generate-release-yml.rs

https://github.com/facebook/watchman/tree/main/watchman/build/package