Mame, Mess, Ume: what now?

[Cesare Falco]

Hello all,

there's exciting good news about Mame and Mess: source trees have
finally been merged and the resulting SVN repository has been given
public (read only) access!
http://mamedev.emulab.it/haze/2012/08/21/together-we-are-better/

It implies we'll soon be able to build all deb's from the same tarball
(through SVN?) avoiding annoying duplications in our work. OTOH
artworks will soon be removed from Mess source and we'll probably need
to track them in the resulting new project.

And we'll probably see UME build became official in the future!
http://mamedev.emulab.it/haze/2012/08/20/ume-0-146u5/

As summer goes by and holidays memories start fading out, I'm also
thinking how we could improve our package further. I'd like to add
some contributed documentation, maybe in an -extra package (where I
believe nplayers.ini should end): history and mameinfo to start with,
and maybe also the cheat file (which would also help clean the
mame.ini cheat entry up). What's your opinion?

Now the bad news.

It seems gcc 4.6.3 on i386 is a bit buggy and the latest Mame unstable
release 0.146u5 FTBFS. Log for the latest attempted build is here:
http://pastebin.com/0epNZ1yp

I had the same issue building Mess 0.146 and lowering optimization
seems to fix this. Could anyone please try a i386 build on a Debian
box? A .dsc with the updated debian/ (I haven't pushed my latest
commits yet to avoid potential breaking of 0.146) can be downloaded
from my PPA:
https://launchpad.net/~c.falco/+archive/ppa/+packages

(Please use mame - 0.146u5-1~ppa1~oneiric as precise has an
experimental patch to build only the problematic files with -O0.)

Live long and prosper,
Cesare.