[Pkg-ace-devel] Did some experimenting

[Johnny Willemsen]

Hi,

> > 1. Try building tests and examples. The fact that ACE and TAO build
> > now does not mean it runs fine. I only use a small part of ACE
> (timers
> > and sockets), thus I cannot vouch for the correctness of the binaries
> > being generated now.
> 
> As far as I recall, there was no test run in the build. I agree that to
> improve package quality we should include a test phase, but building is
> very long, and packages have been RC for a while already. So I suggest
> we upload a fix for them, then think about a test method. What do you
> think? Johnny, are tests run when RPM are built?

We don't do testing with rpm packages, the difference is that we don't use
configure there. I do have r2corba dependent on ace/tao on opensuse build
service, when ace/tao gets updates, r2corba gets compiled which than also
uses tao_idl. If that works, at least basic stuff works

> To reduce the difference with the regular build mechanism, we have two
> scripts:
>   1. debian/cmp-installation.sh

Ok, let us also put this in debianbuild on ace/tao

>   2. the script available from thread (1) -- it needs to be added to
> our
>      build scripts.
> 
> > 2. Now that we are running autoupdate and autoreconf, I'd bet we can
> > get rid of some patches
> 
> Possibly.
> 
> > When this is done, we can move forward to 5.7.5 :-)
> 
> I'm rebuilding the 5.6.3 packages right now.
> 

Johnny