[Pkg-ace-devel] [libtao-doc] Compiling examples

[Pascal Giard]

Dear ACE maintainers,
 after playing around and trying to figure how this works, i'm finally
giving up and writing to you.

I'm trying to build and execute the examples in
/usr/share/doc/libtao-doc/examples but i'm unable to build them.

After copying the example directory elsewhere (e.g. my homedir) and
defining ACE_ROOT to /usr/share/ace (is this wrong?), i thought a
simple "make" would do the trick, but it doesn't.

Instead, i get:
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/pgiard/tao_examples/AMH'
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/pgiard/tao_examples/AMH/Sink_Server'
make[3]: Entering directory `/home/pgiard/tao_examples/AMH/Sink_Server'

GNUmakefile: /home/pgiard/tao_examples/AMH/Sink_Server/GNUmakefile.Sink_Server_Client
MAKEFLAGS=w

make[3]: *** No rule to make target `../../../../bin/tao_idl', needed
by `TestC.h'.  Stop.
[...]

At first sight, this relative path thing looks hazardous...
Anyway, looking closer at GNUmakefile.Sink_Server_Client, i see that
TAO_IDL is defined with a relative path. This just can't work.

So i've tried undefining it since it's later defined via the inclusion
of the $(ACE_ROOT)/include/makeinclude/wrapper_macros.GNU .
Unfortunatly, the TAO_IDL defined there won't work either as
/usr/share/ace/TAO/TAO_IDL doesn't exist.

So hmm... this is a broken package? How can i compile the examples?

Could you please provide explanations in a README.Debian for future
users that will, like me, hit a wall trying to build the examples?

Thanks a bunch for your help,

-Pascal
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