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

[Thomas Girard]

Hello Pascal,

On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 12:07:42PM -0400, Pascal Giard wrote:
> Since the dev ML looks quite dead... (haven't received any feedback in a 
> week)
> I'm forwarding this to maintainers.

Sorry for the delay. The mailing list is not dead; I was too busy to
reply.

[...]

> 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.

[...]

> 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?

You did not mention the version of the ACE+TAO packages you were using,
so I'm assuming the 5.4.7-12.

There's already a README.Debian in the source package, but it seems it
disappeared from the binary packaged. I'll have a look at it; in the
meantime you can read it here:

  http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-ace/trunk/debian/README.Debian?op=file

Please let me know if instructions work for you.

Regards,

Thomas