Re: [Xnee-devel] questions for the Xnee package

[Henrik Sandklef]

Hi Jeremiah

On Mon, February 6, 2006 11:31 pm, Jeremiah Foster said:
> Things to do for the new Xnee package in Debian
> ==============================================
>
> 1. Do we want to add information to the README.Debian file?
> Currently this file is empty. Or do we want to just use the Xnee README
> file instead?

Just copy the README .... as long as it is OK with the Debian guidlines.

> 2. I removed this text from the README file because it is irrelevant in
> the debian environment. Please advise.

Hmmm, it seems to be irrelevant event to Xnee :(

I am glad you pointed it out :)

> "To build these three programs do the following:
> -----------------------------------------------
> libxnee:
>   Go to the directory libxnee and read the INSTALL file
> xnee:
>   Go to the directory xnee and read the INSTALL file
> gnee:
>   Go to the directory gnee and read the INSTALL file"
>
> Files is attached for your approval:
> (All have been edited by me.)
>
> debian/control
> debian/copyright

I think that the copyright file reflects the author of the packaging code?
If so, then the copyright is yours.

If not, I'd think you should write
 Copyright (C) 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 Henrik
Sandklef and Jon-Erling Dahl

> 3. I am unable to compile xnee-2.04 on my ubuntu machine:
> $ uname -a
> Linux jeremiahfoster.com 2.6.12-10-386 #1 Mon Jan 16 17:18:08 UTC 2006
> i686 GNU/Linux
>
> $ sudo fakeroot debian/rules build
>
> make[4]: Entering directory `/home/jeremiah/Xnee/xnee-2.04/cnee/src'
> source='main.c' object='main.o' libtool=no \
> depfile='.deps/main.Po' tmpdepfile='.deps/main.TPo' \
> depmode=gcc3 /bin/sh ../.././autotools//depcomp \
> i486-linux-gnu-gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../..
> -I../../libxnee/include      -g -DUSE_VERBOSE -DNO_BUF_VERBOSE     -Wall
> -g -O2 -c `test -f 'main.c' || echo './'`main.c
> source='parse.c' object='parse.o' libtool=no \
> depfile='.deps/parse.Po' tmpdepfile='.deps/parse.TPo' \
> depmode=gcc3 /bin/sh ../.././autotools//depcomp \
> i486-linux-gnu-gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../..
> -I../../libxnee/include      -g -DUSE_VERBOSE -DNO_BUF_VERBOSE     -Wall
> -g -O2 -c `test -f 'parse.c' || echo './'`parse.c
> parse.c: In function 'xnee_parse_args':
> parse.c:258: warning: implicit declaration of function
> 'xnee_set_replay_offset_str'
> parse.c:264: warning: implicit declaration of function
> 'xnee_get_replay_offset_x'
> parse.c:264: warning: implicit declaration of function
> 'xnee_get_replay_offset_y'
> parse.c: In function 'xnee_infopage':
> parse.c:1064: warning: too few arguments for format
> parse.c:1070: warning: too few arguments for format
> i486-linux-gnu-gcc -I../../libxnee/include      -g -DUSE_VERBOSE
> -DNO_BUF_VERBOSE     -Wall -g -O2   -o cnee   main.o parse.o
> -L../../libxnee/src -lxnee -L/usr/X11R6/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lX11
> -lXtst      -L/usr/X11R6/lib
> ./cnee --infopage > cnee.texi
> cd . \
>   &&    \
>        `echo cnee.texi | sed 's,.*/,,'`
> /bin/sh: cnee.texi: command not found
> make[4]: *** [cnee.info] Error 127
> make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/jeremiah/Xnee/xnee-2.04/cnee/src'
> make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/jeremiah/Xnee/xnee-2.04/cnee'
> make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/jeremiah/Xnee/xnee-2.04'
> make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/jeremiah/Xnee/xnee-2.04'
> make: *** [build-stamp] Error 2


I will check the errors asap.... think they are already solved locally
(which is very easy to say since you can't check it ;)





/hesa