[Debian GNUstep maintainers] gnustep-make upload

[Eric Heintzmann]

OK, uploaded.


Le 22/10/2017 à 00:49, Yavor Doganov a écrit :
> Eric Heintzmann wrote:
>> Le 20/10/2017 à 09:50, Yavor Doganov a écrit :
>>> ## TODO: check if we can comply with XDG  --with-user-defaults-dir=
>> ie splitting ~/GNUstep/ dir and moving into ~/.config/, ~/.local/share/
>> and ~/.cache/
>> I don't think it is possible, or even desirable.
> Ah, this is not possible (and I don't think it's desirable, either).
> If we specify -with-user-defaults-dir='.config/GNUstep/Defaults' it
> would be more confusing for most users and this setting won't be
> uniform for the GNUstep USER domain wrt XDG.  There is no way to direct
> the installation to XDG-compliant directories without significant
> changes upstream to -make and -base.
>
> AFAIK there's no pressure from Debian to go to that direction, or
> perhaps I'm wrong here (having been detached/MIA for quite some time)?
>
>>> Is there anything else to fix?  If not, should I upload to mentors and
>>> seek for a sponsor?  
>> Not needed, I'm going to upload it - I've got now uploading rights on
>> -make and -base
> Congratulations for becoming a DM, then!  This will certainly speed up
> things.
>
>> About flags, I can see
>>
>> CFLAGS := -g -O2
>> CXXFLAGS := $(CFLAGS)
>> OBJCFLAGS :=
>> CPPFLAGS :=
>> LDFLAGS :=
>>
>> Are they the default or recommended ones by upstream  ?
> Just pristine (empty) flags instead of the dpkg buildflags.
>
> They are populated by the recommended upstream (and some of them
> necessary) flags when gnustep-make is configured, and on the fly when
> debug|diagnose|strip is specified through additional/internal/private
> make variables (named usually INTERNAL_* or ADDITIONAL_*), using
> common GNU Make functions/features.
>
> For some (historic?) reason, gnustep-make is treating CFLAGS and
> CXXFLAGS (CCFLAGS in gnustep-make parlance -- they are CXXFLAGS in
> configure.ac but become CCFLAGS through all of gnustep-make's
> makefiles) differently to OBJCFLAGS, that's why I've set '-g -O2' for
> C/C++.  The optimization flag is added through the OPTFLAG variable
> later when common.make & friends get included and evaluated.
>
> You can test the above change to the Debian package with this example
> makefile:
>
>> include $(GNUSTEP_MAKEFILES)/common.make >
>> 					   >
>> TOOL_NAME = foo			   >
>> 					   >
>> foo_OBJC_FILES = foo.m		   >
>> foo_C_FILES = foo.c			   >
>> foo_CC_FILES = foo.cc			   >
>> 					   >
>> include $(GNUSTEP_MAKEFILES)/tool.make   >
> Just create empty/dummy .m/.c/.cc files.  (I tested it with a real
> GNUstep tool + dummy .c and .cc additional files that link together in
> a single executable).  Examine the compiler/linker flags with
> messages=yes and compare with 2.7.0-1 (or the version in stable) --
> the result is the upstream flags *without* the Debian hardening flags
> which are strictly distro-specific and shouldn't be imposed on the
> regular developer/user who is simply using Debian as a platform for
> GNUstep development.
>
>
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