[csw-maintainers] Package policy questions

[Roger Håkansson]

Dagobert Michelsen wrote:
> Hi Roger,
> 
> Am 28.01.2010 um 21:16 schrieb Dagobert Michelsen:
>> Am 28.01.2010 um 21:06 schrieb Roger Håkansson:
>>> I think I've read somewhere that we should strive to build all 
>>> packages with as many options enabled as possible, which seems like a 
>>> good idea.
>>> But what about delivering different functionality in the same package 
>>> for 32/64-bit binaries?
>>> I've been looking into enabling 64-bit support for ImageMagick, but 
>>> the dependency chain is starting to get huge and when that list 
>>> include packages like libbonobo2 it becomes a bit tricky.
>>> The amount of packages affected by an upgrade of for example 
>>> libbonobo2 are huge.
> 
> I remember. I was working on libbonobo2 and stuck at an error during IDL 
> compilation
> from ORBit2, then decided it was an orbit-thing and updated ORBit2 to 
> the latest
> version including 64 bit but it didn't help. On compilation I get
> 
>> /opt/csw/bin/orbit-idl-2 -I../idl -D__Bonobo_COMPILATION 
>> -D__Bonobo_Unknown_COMPILATION -D__Bonobo_GenericFactory_COMPILATION 
>> -D__Bonobo_Activation_types_COMPILATION --imodule ../idl/Bonobo.idl
>> orbit-idl-2 2.14.17 compiling
>>   mode, hide preprocessor errors, passes: stubs skels common headers 
>> imodule
>>
>> Processing file ../idl/Bonobo.idl
>> ../idl/Bonobo.idl:35: Error: syntax error, unexpected TOK_SRCFILE, 
>> expecting TOK_ENUM or TOK_STRUCT or TOK_UNION
>>
>> ** (orbit-idl-2:19669): WARNING **: ../idl/Bonobo.idl compilation failed
>> gmake: *** [Bonobo.h] Error 1
> 
> Any ideas of what is going on there? Everything is checked into GAR at
>   pkg/libbonobo2
> 

One hit with google
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=142099