feature/gbuild_ure needs testing

[David Tardon]

Hi,

On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 10:49:46AM +0200, David Tardon wrote:
> 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!

The branch feature/gbuild_ure has been merged to master.

D.