Mame, Mess, Ume: what now?

Emmanuel Kasper emmanuel at libera.cc
Tue Aug 28 15:29:20 UTC 2012


Am 2012-08-24 14:43, schrieb 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/

That's great news ! Yes it will save a lot of duplicated work.

> 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?

Yes it is a good idea. Unfortunately not everybody has been cooperative 
here, especially the catver maintainer refuse to license their work so 
we can distribute it. Maybe you'll have better luck :)

If you update the default paths, don't forget to update the mame and 
mess Readme.Debian
Without such a readme it took me two hours the first I wanted to use 
mame on my linux box, three years ago ...

> 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

Well actually I don't have the time to follow all the update releases 
for mame (especially since mame has right now two release critical bugs 
which are debian specific) but we build already mame and mess with -O2 
since 0.146-2, and it fixed on debian the compilation problems with gcc-4.7

Greetings !

Manu






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