Many configuration and other issues have been fixed.
Just for information, many of these issues had to do (again) with new
versions of tools behaving differently on different platforms and
breaking configure in new improved ways.
For example, certain versions of the C processor now report warnings
about search order changes for "system directories" induced by -Ixxx
options. These warnings appear on stderr which is checked by certain
primitive configure macros (e.g. CPP related). As a result, checks
based on these macros now fail (since something appears on stderr)
where they used to succeed.
Consequently, if e.g. a gnome component is installed in /usr/local on
a system where /usr/local is considered a "system directory", then the
corresponding xxx-config script, when invoked with --cflags, will
report flags that cause the above mentioned configure checks to fail
when they ought to succeed.
It took me (and Marc-Antoine) a long time to understand the problem
and eventually fix it.
MACOSX: all build issues that we know of have been beaten into
submission. Some issues seem to remain in connection with some GTK
applications, but not all the time.
WINDOWS: the reports so far are that the gdbm reorganize issue
persists with newer versions of gdbm for windows. If anybody knows
what this is about or is able to build a Windows distro without the
reported problem with gdbm, then that would be really great.
SOLARIS: Valentin has been kind enough to attempt building mozart on
Solaris, but is encountering build-environment problems. Solaris
installations tend to have a ...er... challenging mix of available
tools. Hopefully we can work through this one soon. It would be
extremely nice if someone ELSE also tried to build Mozart on a
different Solaris installation. It is practically guaranteed that
some other issues will arise as a consequence of wonderfully
imaginative different circumstances :-)
DEBIAN: there are some growing pains with building mozart-gtk
documentation, possibly due to the creative (but surely politically
correct) rearrangement of installation files in Debian. This should
be easy enough to overcome. We are waiting with baited breath :-)
RPMs: so far, no one has gotten back to me about building binary RPMs
on other distros. Doesn't anyone run Mandrake or SuSE?
I have moved the mozart-1-2-5 tags forward in all modules of the CVS,
and I have built new tars and rpms which are now available on the
download site.
Cheers,
-- Dr. Denys Duchier Iquipe Calligramme LORIA, Nancy, FRANCE - Please send submissions to hackers@mozart-oz.org and administriva mail to hackers-request@mozart-oz.org. The Mozart Oz web site is at http://www.mozart-oz.org/.