feature/gbuild_ure needs testing

[David Tardon]

Hi all,

On Thu, Aug 02, 2012 at 12:00:22PM +0200, David Tardon wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> now that 3.6.0 is sucessfully out, I have started pushing gbuild
> conversion forward again. The latest result of my effort is on branch
> feature/gbuild_ure and you really do want to test that it works on your
> platform :-) What is there:
> 
> 1/ Module bridges has been converted to gbuild. This module is _crucial_
>    for UNO. Have I already said that you want to test the branch? The
>    absolute minimum to check that C++ bridge still works is to run
> 
>    make testtools.all
> 
> 2/ Module cli_ure has been converted to gbuild. Actually I have created
>    some machinery for building CLI stuff in gbuild, because it seemed to
>    make more sense than copy-pasting (nearly) the same code several
>    times. This only builds on windows. I do expect some problems, because
>    I only smoketested the code (replacing all commands by touch $@).
> 
> 3/ 21 modules have been added to tail_build. I hope that I have found
>    and fixed all incomplete dependencies, but it is possible that some
>    additional ones arise on different platforms/configurations.
> 
> If you find a problem, yell at me or fix it :-)

I finally got around to fixing the remaining problems: There were
several more missing dependencies that I found by running make
module.all for all modules in tail_build. In addition to that, I have
run test builds on ppc, ppc64, s390 and s390x (I do not have easy access
to other architectures). I do not suppose I am going to get any more
testers for the branch, so I am going to merge it to master in a couple
of days (most probably on Saturday). Thanks everyone involved
(especially Matus) for testing!

D.