Mail from the Ubuntu mame MOTU

[Jordi Mallach]

On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 12:57:15PM +0200, Cesare Falco wrote:
> first of all, my apologies for writing in HTML, but it seems I can't
> persuade Gmail to use simple text. Anyone can help? :/

Hmm, besides, get another email provider? ;) /me runs.

> Ok, I finally sorted this out. :)
> 
> No dir clashes occur on 0.142, but they *did* in 0.141, when I first started
> working on packaging Mess. I also peeked at the unstable series toward 0.143
> and it seems they're patching src/emu/ src/mame/ src/osd/sdl and others.
> They could also end up as part of the Mame source, but who knows?
> It's likely that in the future dir clashes can (if not *will*) occur again,
> and we'd
> have to revise the dh_auto_build target. :(

I see. Let's see what happens in 0.143. Can I ask for no debian-component
with capital letters, though? Can we stick with "mess", instead of "Mess"?
:)

> I also reviewed my own code, which happens to be different from what I
> recalled ;)
> * A copy of the (Mame) src/ tree is made to src.Mess/ first,
> * the makefile and contents of Mess are then copied in src.Mess/
> * build is done inside src.Mess/ (and no particular order is required)
> 
> I'd stick with this approach which makes maintainance easier IMHO. :)

I see. So MAME builds fine even with the MESS changes? Why does this suck
so much? :/ Would patching the mame source be cleaner if we dealt with the
file clashes via a "mess_clash.patch"?

> > Parsing with some grep + regexp hack might help us, but we will always
> > need to have some manual editing I guess. Geez, thinking about this makes
> > me sick. :)
> ...see you in the toilet. I'll already be there... :D

Luckily we have Manu. :P

Jordi
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