On Di, Dez 13, 2011 at 13:23:25 (CET), Thomas Koch wrote: > Hi, > > I just made a fool of myself on the simple-build-tool list by claiming that > Debian would build scala without scala. I only checked debian/rules and > debian/control and since scala is in main, I assumed that I must be right. > > However scala comes with a bytecode-compiled scala compiler in lib/ which is > required only during build but not installed in the binary packages. > > I already opened reportbug to fill a serious Debian Policy violation, but > actually I couldn't find anything in the policy about it. > > So is it ok to ship binaries in the source package that are only required > during build? Can I do the same with simple-build-tool, which requires itself > to build?
I had a similar situation in the aspectc++ package, which is a source-to-source compiler (from AspectC++ to C++). Background: AspectC++ requires a library called Puma for parsing C/C++ Code. While Puma itself is written in C++, the Visual C++ and Gnu Extensions to the C++ language are written with aspects. This means that you need the 'ac++' compiler to "weave" Puma. Solution: Upstream provides so-called "woven" sources, which includes a "pre-woven" Puma library. In the Debian package I use these sources to compile a "boostrap" ac++ binary, then start over from start, weave Puma with the "bootstrap" ac++ binary, recompile Puma, throw away the boostrap ac++ binary, and finally compile ac++. Additional benefit: I have now tested that the ac++ compiler actually works on all architectures! Implementation: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~siretart/aspectc++/debian/view/head:/debian/rules (line 41-56) I'm pretty sure that this approach can be appleid to both the 'simple-build-tool' and 'scala' packages. Cheers, Reinhard -- Gruesse/greetings, Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87iplkzm3l....@faui43f.informatik.uni-erlangen.de
