[Pkg-ace-devel] Re: ACE 5.4.2 packages

[Thomas Girard]

Thomas Girard wrote:
> Konstantinos Margaritis wrote:
> 
>> On Παρ 03 Σεπ 2004 01:10, Thomas Girard wrote:
>>
>>> Patches are available in
>>> http://thomas.g.girard.free.fr/ace/patches.
>>
>> Ok, I'll take a look at them during the week, right now my schedule is 
>> very busy unfortunately.
>>
>>
>>> I haven't tried recompiling Debian packages since this split. I
>>> will tomorrow and let you know if I encounter any problem.
>>
>> Ok, I'd like to hear how that goes. Basically Brian Nelson the other 
>> ACE co-maintainer was working on exactly using dpatch on the packages, 
>> but I can't seem to be able to reach him lately. Brian, are you 
>> reading this?
> 
> Well, I've hit a bug... The fix is in patches/debian-fix.diff.
> 
> I also have a strange behaviour that seems to be a bash3 + debhelper bug 
> on sid. Any meta character in *-docs.doc throws errors when using 
> dh_installdocs. So I'm currently recompiling on sarge, but the machine 
> is much more slower, and I cannot yet say everything is fine. I'll post 
> again when I'm done compiling...
> 

Hello again,

this time the packages are compiled. They are being uploaded to 
http://thomas.g.girard.free.fr/ace/ as I'm writing this email.

The dh_installdocs bug was not related to bash3 at all, sorry about 
that. I've hit it also in sarge, which still has bash 2.05. Seemingly 
something was changed in the way dh_installdocs works. A new patch, 
fix-dh_installdocs.diff, which expands meta characters, was added.

Another one, add-xerces-build-dependency.diff was also needed to 
complete the compilation of CIAO. Actually, a CIAO part, DAnCE is using 
xerces and is being compiled but *not* installed. DAnCE stands for 
Deployment And Configuration Engine and is new in CIAO 0.4.2. It should 
probably be packaged in another package, e.g. ciao-dance.

The last new patch, fix-CIAO-missing-lib, adds a library to the 
libciao1.4 package.


Regards,

Thomas