[Pkg-ace-devel] Did some experimenting

Thomas Girard thomas.g.girard at free.fr
Sun Dec 13 08:05:22 UTC 2009


(Removed tao-users@, since this email is focused on Debian only)

Hello Pau,
Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote:
> With those two patches and a modification to 14-autoconf-tao (I'm not
> really sure it's needed, though), it builds here on my Kubuntu Karmic
> i386. I do not have more time today but I will test on Debian Unstable
> tomorrow.
> 
> However, I think we should do two more things before we release 5.6.3-6:
> 
> 1. Try building tests and examples. The fact that ACE and TAO build
> now does not mean it runs fine. I only use a small part of ACE (timers
> and sockets), thus I cannot vouch for the correctness of the binaries
> being generated now.

As far as I recall, there was no test run in the build. I agree that to
improve package quality we should include a test phase, but building is
very long, and packages have been RC for a while already. So I suggest
we upload a fix for them, then think about a test method. What do you
think? Johnny, are tests run when RPM are built?

To reduce the difference with the regular build mechanism, we have two
scripts:
  1. debian/cmp-installation.sh
  2. the script available from thread (1) -- it needs to be added to our
     build scripts.

> 2. Now that we are running autoupdate and autoreconf, I'd bet we can
> get rid of some patches 

Possibly.

> When this is done, we can move forward to 5.7.5 :-)

I'm rebuilding the 5.6.3 packages right now.

Your name and email are missing from debian/changelog and debian/rules;
I'll add them.

Thanks for your work, Pau.

Regards,
Thomas

(1) 
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.soft-sys.ace/browse_thread/thread/23c91415a212582a/91b813768de847df



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