On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 12:57:03PM -0700, Alan Irwin wrote: > On 2011-08-10 10:02+0100 Andrew Ross wrote: > >> >> Dear All, >> >> I've been working on the Debian packaging for 5.9.8. There is a separate >> branch in svn for this. To check it out you need >> >> svn co >> https://plplot.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/plplot/branches/v5_9_8_debian >> plplot-5.9.8 >> >> To build the packages on a Debian testing system do >> cd plplot-5.9.8 >> ./debian/rules control >> dpkg-buildpackage -r fakeroot >> >> Alternatively you can use something like pbuilder. I use this to build >> packages for testing on a stable system. Very handy. > > Hi Andrew: > > Thanks for your important Debian packaging efforts for PLplot. > > I tried building debs using the debuild front-end to dpkg-buildpackage, > but I ran into some issues. > > I. ./debian/rules control > > had some build-dependencies (quilt and slice) which I had to install. > But I only learned the hard way about those because you need the > control file configured to help debian warn you when there are missing > build dependencies. Perhaps to deal with this Chicken and egg problem > with build dependency warnings you should include the configured > control file with the svn version?
Done - this is a not entirely satisfactory setup. I'll look into better ways of doing this. > II. With control configured, debuild then informed me of a number of other > build dependencies I didn't have installed. After addressing those > issues, debuild complained about a missing ChangeLog file. That file > was dropped (since it was full of ancient stuff) and ChangeLog.release > added for 5.9.8, but I suspect your packaging still has some residual > references to ChangeLog that should be addressed. To work around that > issue, I ran "touch ChangeLog". Problem was the svn branch was the inital 5.9.8 release with the bug in CMakeLists.txt. I tested with the released tarball which had Hazen's fix. I've committed the fix to svn. > III. After that change > > debuild --no-lintian -us -uc -b -j4 2>&1 >| debuild.out > > failed to work. Although debuild (and dpkg-buildpackage which it is > the front end for) support parallel builds with, e.g, the -j4 option, > and so does PLplot, it looks like your Debian packaging does not > support that option yet. I did notice for my last try below > without the -j4 option that a lot of cpu time is being consumed with > tests. Assuming your debian package build rules are running something > like "make test_noninteractive" in the build tree, a parallel build > option would serve to really speed that up for individuals who are > trying to build the package themselves. Currently I'm running ctest to perform all the tests which doesn't parallelise. I should probably change to make test_noninteractive. I assume this will parallelise then. > IV. So then I started over, touched ChangeLog as before, and ran > > debuild --no-lintian -us -uc -b 2>&1 >| debuild.out > > (without the -j4 option) and that failed in the install stage with the > following message: > > rm -f COPYING.LIB *.dvi ; \ > mv ChangeLog.release changelog ) > mv: cannot stat ChangeLog.release': No such file or directory > make: *** [install-arch-stamp] Error 1 > dpkg-buildpackage: error: fakeroot debian/rules binary gave error exit status > 2 > > I don't understand that message since ChangeLog.release is still there > at the top of the source tree. So perhaps the package build is in the wrong > directory at that stage? > > Once the above issues with ChangeLog and not being able to find > ChangeLog.release get straightened out, I would be happy to try again. > Parallel build support would also be nice but not essential. Same issue as before - should now be fixed. Thanks for the tests! Andrew ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get a FREE DOWNLOAD! and learn more about uberSVN rich system, user administration capabilities and model configuration. Take the hassle out of deploying and managing Subversion and the tools developers use with it. http://p.sf.net/sfu/wandisco-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
