Re: [tei-council] Update on build problems with P5

On 15-08-31 01:21 PM, Hugh Cayless wrote:

I honestly don’t even know what they’re for. Do people use them?

This might be something else to ask in the survey. But I wonder if (for instance) OxGarage might have them installed. Everywhere we turn there are more mysteries. However, I think I figured at least part of this one out. The deb build process uses "rules" files, which look very much like makefiles*; and each one of those (there are six) calls the original parent P5/Makefile* again. So I have to pass the VCS variable into the deb build commands, and then have each of those rules files pass it back to the parent Makefile* at the appropriate time. When I did that, it didn't fail quite so quickly on my local machine, and it failed in a different way. Which is progress of a sort. *I hate make. Cheers, Martin

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On Aug 31, 2015, at 16:04 , Martin Holmes wrote:

HI all,

Hugh and I have been wrestling with the very puzzling results of the P5 build on Jenkins: while TEIP5-Documentation works as expected, generating Guidelines based on the git version, TEIP5 seems to know nothing of git, and behaves as if we're still using svn.

I think I've figured out the cause. The Makefile* includes targets "debversion" and "deb" (the latter depends on the former), and the latter seems to be shot through with explicit references to svn:

@echo BUILD: make Debian tei-p5-database package (cd debian-tei-p5-database; debclean;debuild -eXSL=${XSL} -eINJENKINS=${INJENKINS} --no-lintian -nc -b -i.svn -I.svn -uc -us)

The Documentation build does not try to build the deb packages, but the full P5 build calls:

make* VCS=git clean deb dist

and in the process of that happening, VCS is set back to svn somehow. If I call

make* VCS=git clean dist

everything works OK.

I know nothing about building debian packages, so this is a mystery to me. I don't mind learning about it, and people assure me that it's not complicated, but it might be more than I can do in a couple of weeks, at least with any confidence. Does anyone else have familiarity with building deb packages?

*I hate make.

Cheers, Martin -- tei-council mailing list tei-council@lists.tei-c.org http://lists.lists.tei-c.org/mailman/listinfo/tei-council

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