[Nexus-developers] Linux Debian etch & nexus 4.0rc2 testing results

[Rudi Cilibrasi, Ph.D.]

Hi Freddie,

I have investigated further and verified your hypothesis is accurate.  I
have therefore built a new version of the libmxml package (it is only
upstream version 2.2 in the official Debian archive) based on the new
2.2.2upstream libmxml version.
I have also updated my Debian package for libnexus for the new
4.0.rc2release.  I ran into a few issues but overall the build was
successful.

1) I had to change the version from 4.0.rc2 to 4.0.0 to avoid breaking some
version-soname awk code.
2) I had to add SONAME setting code in configure.ac and src/Makefile.am to
allow for better linking and library hygeine.
3) I could not build the fortran bindings this time for some reason.  It
seems not to even try to build them with a normal make.  If I go into the
f77 or f90 directories myself I get a message like this:
L-(09:20:%)-- m
--(Mon,Apr02)-XJ
/bin/sh ../../libtool --mode=compile    -c -o napif.lo napif.f
libtool: unrecognized option `-c'
Try `libtool --help' for more information.
make: *** [napif.lo] Error 1

I have included many updated Debian packages for libmxml as well as libnexus
(all based on 4.0.rc2 orig) and also tarred up all the source files I used
(modified/added) to make the package.  Could you please review the files I
had to change so that we can decide which, if any, of the diffs are
appropriate to add to your main codebase?  It is in psrc.tar.gz and the
whole load of files is in:
http://cilibrar.com/~cilibrar/projsup/nex4/
If you would prefer not to receive patches through email/web post like the
above then I am also willing to become a developer on tigris and just use
Subversion directly if that is more convenient for you.  I look forward to
your response and hope to continue to help you improve 4.0.  Best regards,

Rudi

On 4/1/07, Akeroyd, FA (Freddie) < F.A.Akeroyd at rl.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>  Rudi,
>
>
>
> Thank you for downloading and testing 4.0rc2 I have looked at the bug
> tracker logs and the reason you were unable to register and add an issue was
> because you were giving your username as "cilibrar" rather than "Cilibrar".
> I though the usernames were case insensitive, but it appears this is not the
> case…
>
>
>
> I believe the test failure for XML is related to the "mxml" package
> provided by Debian. NeXus makes use of the "custom nodes" feature in mxml,
> and a bug was fixed for these in version 2.2.2 I'm not sure whether the
> Debian provided version is either pre 2.2.2 or has some other issue, but
> when I removed the "libxml-dev" and "libmxml1" packages from an old Debian
> system I have and installed mxml-2.2.2 from source (
> http://www.easysw.com/~mike/mxml <http://www.easysw.com/%7Emike/mxml>) the
> tests were passed. Thank you for bringing this issue to our attention – we
> will add a note to the next distribution's README files.
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
>
> Freddie
>
>
>
> P.S. While checking out the above I also found an issue with the –with-xml
> configure option  … it sets CFLAGS correctly, but due to a typo not the
> LDFLAGS. This is now fixed in the 4.0 branch and will be in a future
> update
>
>
>  ------------------------------
>
> *From:* nexus-developers-bounces at nexusformat.org [mailto:
> nexus-developers-bounces at nexusformat.org] *On Behalf Of *Rudi Cilibrasi,
> Ph.D.
> *Sent:* 31 March 2007 16:10
> *To:* nexus-developers at nexusformat.org
> *Subject:* [Nexus-developers] Linux Debian etch & nexus 4.0rc2 testing
> results
>
>
>
> Hi everybody,
>
> I tried to register and add an 'issue' to the bug tracker but so far it
> doesn't seem to let me in.  I have already verified my email...
> So I will just send my results here instead.  I am using an x86 Linux
> Debian etch system.  make check failed with
> 2 failed tests and 3 skipped.
>   To: <nexus-developers at nexusformat.org>
>    Subject: [NeXus Library 4.0rc2] testsuite: 5 6 failed
>
> I attach the testsuite.log in this email.  Note also that I got several
> compile warnings and these I have logged in another attached file, "o".
> Cheers,
>
> Rudi
>
>
> --
> Democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding what to eat for lunch.
> Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
>



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