On Sunday 31 August 2003 21:15, Johan Sundström (på säljakt) @ Pike (-) developers forum wrote:
This is the initial commit of a pike ebuild so I'd be warmly interested in every sucess and failure story regarding the ebuild ;-)
With your feedback I hope to steadily improve the pike ebuilds and get it into the stable tree quite soon.
After a quick peek at your ebuild file, it looks like we would like your help to improve Pike, as well. (I noticed you had some kind of problems with ffmpeg and -fomit-frame-pointer.)
yes, I was hitting a problem when using -fomit-frame-pointer (make fails the first time pike is called). I saw a thread in the archives about -fomit-frame-pointer problems (IIRC a fix [workaround ?] has been committed to 7.5). So, I filter the flag out of the build process (after all, it probalby doesn't have a critical impact on the resulting binary anyway so that shouldn't be a loss).
Someone else who tested the ebuild told me about the ffmpeg problem (I didn't have it installed but after installing it I experienced the same compilation problem so I disabled it).
We run a build farm to try to learn about such problems occurring on various operating systems and platforms - ideally to fix them in pike itself, so packagers should not need to bother themselves; check out http://pike.ida.liu.se/development/pikefarm/7.4.xml for an overview.
I visited the #pike irc channel yesterday and had a nice talk with some guys there and someone mentioned pikefarm, too. Unfortunatly, at the moment I don't have the resources to add a gentoo box to pikefarm, but perhaps that'll change in the future ;)
If you would like to run a gentoo build client once in a while, we would only be too glad - that way we will have some automated means for tracking problems that creep up in the most recent source tree in CVS at any time (or at least as often as build clients have a go at the source).
(There is more info at http://pike.ida.liu.se/development/pikefarm/.)
/ Johan Sundström (på säljakt)