Re: relocatable-prog status

[Sylvain]

Hi,

On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 01:48:19PM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> Sylvain <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > It's been a while (1 year 1/2) since
> > http://lists.debian.org/debian-bsd/2012/05/msg00032.html and I still
> > need to manually patch gnulib before releasing.
> >
> > If I assume the relocatable-prog module is not maintained, that I'm
> > probably the only person on earth to use it, and that I should just
> > drop it from my package, am I wrong? ;)
> 
> No, we use relocatable-prog in GNU PSPP as well.  I build with it
> all the time.  But I don't use Debian/kFreeBSD or Debian/Hurd, so
> I don't see this problem.

I don't use them either, but the Debian autobuilder does :)
In the case of pspp, I see that it compiles fine on these
platforms, e,g.:
https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=pspp&arch=kfreebsd-amd64&ver=0.7.9%2bgit20120620-1.2&stamp=1369659905

AFAIU you'll hit the bug as soon as you have more than 1 program in a
bin_PROGRAMS statement.  Mine is:
  bin_PROGRAMS = freedink freedinkedit

In this case automake makes 1 call to 'install' with multiple
arguments, but 'install-reloc' only support one. Bruno's patch adds
support for multiple arguments.  It's as simple as that.


> I do read this list, and I am a maintainer of relocatable-prog,
> but somehow I missed the discussion.  Maybe I thought that Bruno
> was going to take care of it, since he suggested the patch.
> 
> Are you still happy with install-reloc with Bruno's patch?  If
> so, then I will commit it to gnulib.

The patch is manually applied for each FreeDink release and compiles
on all Debian architectures (as well as other distros and OSes).

When discussing with Bruno at GHM 2012, he told me he absolutely
wanted to write a test case first.  But after this much time I wonder
why a non-test-cased bug should prevail over an non-test-cased fix ;)

So as far as I'm concerned, I'd be happy to see this fix committed :)

-- 
Sylvain