[Pkg-ace-devel] Did some experimenting

[Pau Garcia i Quiles]

Hello,

According to Johnny, ACE-x.y.z.tar.gz are generated from
ACE-x.y.z-src.tar.gz by running the 'bootstrap' script on a RHEL4
machine (anduril.dre) with this configuration:

Autoconf 2.59
Automake 1.9.6
Libtool 1.5.6
Bash, 3.00.15, /bin/sh is bash 3.00.15 also.

I've done some testing with the 5.6.3 branch (5.6.3-6-to-be) with and
it almost builds (it fails in the install step with an odd error about
not wanting to overwrite a just-created file, but I don't care about
that now) with the following configuration:

Autoconf 2.64
Automake 1.11
Libtool 1.5.22 (I took the etch package and built it)
Bash 4.00.33

So I'd say the main stopper we are having is libtool, and I guess
when/if anduril.dre ever moves to a newer libtool they will face the
same problems. Once more, Debian is serving as the tester for some
piece of software, just like it was the testbed for XFree86 :-/

Solutions? None at the moment. Going back to libtool 1.5.22 is
certainly not a solution. My knowledge of libtool is... well, zero :-)

-- 
Pau Garcia i Quiles
http://www.elpauer.org
(Due to my workload, I may need 10 days to answer)