[Pkg-ace-devel] Repairing ACE+TAO

[Thomas Girard]

Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote:
>> No luck with the last FTBFS :-(
> 
> What's the problem you are seeing? 

bootstrap works, then ACE is successfully built.

But when it comes to TAO, it runs:
> make[1]: entrant dans le répertoire « /opt/dev/5.6.3-debian/objdir/TAO »
> CDPATH="${ZSH_VERSION+.}:" && cd ../../ACE_wrappers/TAO && /bin/bash /opt/dev/5.6.3-debian/ACE_wrappers/aux_config/missing --run aclocal-1.11 -I ../m4
which fails because there's a missing -I m4 (this -I m4 is removed by
patch 93, but we know this patch is needed because otherwise bootstrap
does not complete).

What I fail to see is why it tries to generate configure again, it was
for TAO after bootstrap was run.

Two weeks ago, I successfully worked around this, and had another issue
later (duplicate file being installed). But I can't remember what was
the hack.

> I more or less got 5.6.3-6 (before patches 35 and 36) to build:
> - it does 'configure'
> - builds ACE and IIRC part of TAO
> - skips ACE examples
> - BUT then it tries to build the 'tests' and 'examples' directories
> from ACE_wrappers/TAO/orbsvcs
> 
> The problem seems to be the build directory is different from the
> source directory and autotools are not adding the right path but I
> have no idea why it does not add the full path to the source
> directory. Further, I don't know why it is trying to build the tests
> and examples because we are telling 'configure' to not build them
> (--disable-ace-tests --disable-ace-examples --disable-tao-tests
> --disable-tao-examples in debian/rules).

It might be related to the build issue above; example and test m4 macros
are in TAO/m4.

> I also remember some error with Kokyu but I cannot remember the
> details now. I did so much testing a couple of days ago with the
> 5.6.3-6 branch that I may be confusing the build failures :-/

I have not seen that.

Thomas