Bug#602050: ITP: supercollider -- A real time audio synthesis programming language

Dan S danstowell+debmm at gmail.com
Wed Mar 9 10:23:38 UTC 2011


2011/3/8 Felipe Sateler <fsateler at debian.org>:
> On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 23:32, Dan S <danstowell+debmm at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 2011/2/25 Felipe Sateler <fsateler at debian.org>:
>>> On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 20:59, Felipe Sateler <fsateler at debian.org> wrote:
>>>> On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 17:46, Dan S <danstowell+debmm at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> 2010/10/31 Felipe Sateler <fsateler at debian.org>:
>>>>>> Package: wnpp
>>>>>> Severity: wishlist
>>>>>> Owner: pkg-multimedia-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org
>>>>>>
>>>>>> * Package name    : supercollider
>>>>>>  Version         : 3.4
>>>>>>  Upstream Author : Lots of people
>>>>>> * URL             : http://supercollider.sourceforge.net
>>>>>> * License         : mostly GPL, some BSD, CC-BY-SA-3.0
>>>>>>  Programming Lang: C++
>>>>>>  Description     : A real time audio synthesis programming language
>>>>>>
>>>>>> SuperCollider is an environment and programming language for real time
>>>>>> audio synthesis and algorithmic composition. It provides an interpreted
>>>>>> object-oriented language which functions as a network client
>>>>>> to a state of the art, realtime sound synthesis server.
>>>>>
>>>>> OK, status of the supercollider packaging. Here's what I wrote on 4th
>>>>> jan (re a patch to add versioning to the soname):
>>>>>
>>>>>> The patch is in, upstream. What's happening right now is we're
>>>>>> preparing a 3.4.2 release, which will include this patch. (release
>>>>>> candidate files are at
>>>>>> <http://sourceforge.net/projects/supercollider/files/Source/3.4.2/>)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The neatest thing is to wait for 3.4.2 official release, then import
>>>>>> it to the deb-mm repo and tweak the scripts for .so.1. Should be soon!
>>>>>
>>>>> Since then, there's been some delay in supercolliderland due to
>>>>> debating garbage-collection issues in the development branch. We can
>>>>> either wait more, or apply the patch downstream, in which case it
>>>>> would I think be ready for others to try? What's the next step once
>>>>> we're OK with the packaging?
>>>>
>>>> Since the patch is already applied upstream, and we are likely to wait
>>>> a while before 3.4.2 is out, it should be OK to apply the patch
>>>> locally to 3.4.1 for now. Please do that, and update the packaging
>>>> accordingly.
>>>
>>> Ping?
>>
>> OK I've had a look at this tonight. There is a scons problem, which
>> lintian handily discovers for me. (Hooray lintian! I think.)
>>
>> The patched build script creates symlinks such as
>> libscsynth.so->libscsynth.so.1.0.0. However, when scons is installing,
>> it doesn't install a symlink but copies the file contents. Therefore
>> instead of one lib file and one symlink, we get two identical lib
>> files - and lintian correctly reports this as an error.
>>
>> I've been trying to find a way to convince scons to do the right
>> thing. I pushed an experimental branch to the git named
>> "scons_soversion" where instead of creating a symlink and asking scons
>> to install it, we add a symlinking command that should run during
>> installation. The problem is, that scons (v1.2.0) uses python chdir()
>> when running commands, which jumps it straight out of the DESTDIR and
>> tries to install in the system /usr/lib rather than the current build
>> tree. So I can't find a way of getting scons to create the symlink
>> during the install step AND inside DESTDIR. One or the other but not
>> both.
>>
>> If anyone can offer suggestions I'd be grateful.
>> http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-multimedia/supercollider.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/scons_soversion
>
> It seems to me that the problem you are having is because your
> debian/rules uses the --install-sandbox option instead of the
> handcoded (by upstream) DESTDIR variable handling in SConstruct.

Interesting...

> I've pushed a commit to that branch that apparently solves the issue.

Great, works here, thanks.

Someone else started the supercollider packaging (on ubuntu) and he
had reasons for going with --install-sandbox. He is bcc'ed here -
Artem please send me (or deb-mm) a mail if you have objections.

I'll merge that branch into master, and send the change upstream (for
inclusion in 3.4.2).

Thanks
Dan





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