[Pkg-ace-devel] Closing RC bugs

[Thomas Girard]

Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote:
> I've been trying to get ACE 5.7.4 to build but I didn't succeed, the
> generated 'configure' fails.
> 
> I've uploaded what I have to http://www.elpauer.org/tmp/ace
> 
> My last try with 5.6.9, months ago, is also still there. That one
> builds but as I said in May, some new binary packages need to be
> created, etc ( see
> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-ace-devel/2009-May/001819.html
> )

Ok. I'm still working on fixing RC bugs for 5.6.3. I'll have a look at
your work after.

> In the end, I think we should move the buildsystem from autotools to
> the traditional way (
> http://www.dre.vanderbilt.edu/~schmidt/DOC_ROOT/ACE/ACE-INSTALL.html#unix_traditional
> ), as autotools seems to receive very few love from upstream. 

Well, my initial goal was to use the autoconf build mechanism in Debian
so that:
  - no arch specific issues raised
  - GNU/kFreeBSD and GNU/Hurd work as well
  - it would improve autoconf support in ACE+TAO (I've contributed some
ACE+TAO autoconf macros)

Now, given my workload, it seems it was too ambitious. Anyway I still
think that's a goal we should aim. Therefore I would suggest to make it
possible to use both traditional and autoconf based mechanism.

Pros:
  - Easier to adapt and deliver to Debian new ACE+TAO releases
Cons:
  - GNU/Hurd and GNU/kFreeBSD support would take more time
  - autoconf support for ACE+TAO no longer improving

Clearly pros outweigh cons, so let's go for it.

> It'd be nice if patches were better documented, too. Many of the
> patches, I don't know why they are required :-(

debian/patches/*.dpatch files should have a comment line (starting with
'## DP:'). But they are probably too terse, I've been working on these
packages alone for too long. Which ones would you like to see
documented?

>> Do you have an alioth account?
> 
> Yes, I do. It's pgquiles-guest

Good. I am currently working on branches/5.6.3. If you familiar with
SVN and willing to join the pkg-ace team then just tell me and the trunk
will be yours...

Regards,

Thomas