On Thu, 2008-06-26 at 14:55 -0400, Jeff Johnson wrote: 
> On Jun 25, 2008, at 11:49 AM, Denis Washington wrote:
> 
> >
> > I hope what is in the data structures is sufficient and well-defined
> > enough. And, what I increasingly tempt to believe, that we don't talk
> > past each other. ;)
> >
> 
> I'm trying to build from your 4 tarballs.
> 
> For starters, I'd suggest LGLPv2 rather than GPLv3 licensing. The
> reason is that the intended target is commercial ISV's, who are
> often (and justfiably) uncomfortable with the viral nature of GPL.
> The commercial ISV's _MUST_ link to your code.

I completely agree. Did I add v3 somewhere?

> Second, I'd suggest a different name than "lsb-package" for now.
> I see no "official" buy-in from LSB yet, and all package names starting
> "lsb-" are reserved for LANANANANANANA ...

Yeah. I thought of renaming it to "Burgdorf API" as this is my home town
(and happens to be a German town too like Berlin).

> Alternatively, get your act togther and register "lsb-package". But you
> are almost sure to annoy and confuse many with "lsb-package".
> 
> Personally, I'd suggest "lsb-berlin" until you get more buy-in, but  
> YMMV.

Or that.

> Back to building ...
> 
> Build fails because
>     #include "i18n-defs.h"
> from lib/lsb_package.c is nowhere obvious to be found.
> 
> Doing
>      touch lib/i18n-defs.h
> keeps gcc happy, but if you don't need the content, don't include the  
> file.
> 
> Next failure is this
> 
> creating liblsb_package.la
> (cd .libs && rm -f liblsb_package.la && ln -s ../liblsb_package.la  
> liblsb_package.la)
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/X/lsb-package/lsb_package-0.1/lib'
> Making all in daemon
> make[2]: Entering directory `/X/lsb-package/lsb_package-0.1/daemon'
> make[2]: *** No rule to make target `org.linuxbase.Packages.xml',  
> needed by `dbus-server-bindings.h'.  Stop.
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/X/lsb-package/lsb_package-0.1/daemon'
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/X/lsb-package/lsb_package-0.1'
> make: *** [all] Error 2
> error: Bad exit status from /X/tmp/rpm-tmp.86094 (%build)
> 
> Where do I find (or generate) the org.linuxbase.Packages.xml file?

I forgot to add some files to Makefile.am, so they weren't in the "make
dist" tarball. I added them and uploaded the fixed version to the LSB
wiki (same place as the previous one).

Regards,
Denis