Re: Debian packages, argtable

[Tom M. <tme...@vl...>]

Shachar Shemesh wrote:
> Actually, I was very suprised to find that rsyncrypto made it into
> stable at all.

Silly me, I didn't even think to check whether there was a Debian 
package for rsyncrypto. I guess I just assumed that at its early stage 
of development it wouldn't have made it in. But of course it's there:

http://packages.debian.org/stable/utils/rsyncrypto

The stable version is of course a couple of versions behind, so I think 
for now, as I'm mostly using the source as a point of reference for 
getting the 0.14 version working under Windows, I'll stick with the 
source distribution.


> Argtable was only added (also by me) to Sid after Sarge was already
> released, so it won't be in stable. Sorry.

So is it compiled in to the stable package as a static library? I 
noticed it isn't on the dependency list of either stable or unstable 
packages.


> I'm the argtable Debian maintainer :-)

Well that'll cut down on finger pointing when getting to the bottom of 
that bug that might be in rsyncrypto or argtable.


>>Attempting to configure rsyncrypto 0.14 on Debian 3.1 (Sarge/stable) I
>>see:
>>
>>  configure: error: argtable2 not found
>>  See `config.log' for more details.

Is there a way to get configure to spit out more friendly messages when 
a dependency isn't found? (I guess with most people using binary 
packages these days, there isn't much motivation to improve build tools 
to that level.)


>>Would it be practical to fall back to using getopt_long() if
>>libargtable2 isn't available?
> 
> I'm afriad not. Argtable was chosen because it has getopt_long
> compatible command line syntax, and yet works on Windows.
[...]
> Unfortunately, it is not compatible to getopt_long in terms
> of function usage.

Ah, that's what I was wondering.


> If a mandatory argument...is not given, you get a segfault.
> I'm not yet sure whether the bug is in argtable or rsyncrypto.

Does argtable have a test suite?

Shouldn't be too hard to code up a small test program that utilizes 
argtable to see whether it chokes on missing required arguments.

  -Tom


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