[maemo-developers] building from source requirement, scummvm Re: Diablo extras repository proposal

[From: Frantisek Dufka]

Graham Cobb wrote:
> A week is a long time for someone funded to work on this full time.  It is 
> nothing at all for people working on this in their spare time!

Exactly :-)

> 
> In my case, a big problem is dependencies which were previously uploaded into 
> Extras without sources.

In my case of scummvm I have following problems

1. dependencies

scummvm depends also on mad, tremor, flac and mpeg2 which I compiled and 
'make install'-ed from tar.gz into my scratchbox environment. Most 
possibly they are in debian but I need to hunt them. I avoided the 
problem so far by linking them statically (they are quite small and I 
prefer to not to have too many dependencies anyway).

2. specific library build options

AFAIK flac must be built without ogg containter (not default) because of 
tremor, tremor provides ogg too, but is incompatible with real ogg

in reality this means for me that -lFLAC needs also -logg by default, 
-logg and -livorbisdec together produce duplicate symbols, scummvm needs 
both flac and tremor(a.k.a. ivorbisdec)

Maybe it is solvable without building flac in special way (no ogg) but 
so far I had no time to solve it.

3. internal compiler error

scummvm is buildable with -Os (my preferred option) but one source in 
kyrandia engine fails with ICE both with -O2 and -Os Only -O3 or no 
optimization works. Currently I don't know how to tweak makefile for 
this specific source.

4. how to make buildable source :-)

I am sorry for being so ignorant but how exactly do I produce debian 
source that can be uploaded? I am still packaging newbie. Any direct 
links to howtos appreciated.

Overall I like the idea of autobuilding from source very much but sadly 
it will take me a lot of time to make scummvm buildable. Also so far any 
work on the actual code (scummvm or other) had higer priority and my 
time is limited. You guys are forcing me to either change priorities or 
sabotage you worthy goal, tough choice :-)

If anyone could lend a hand, you can get 0.11.1 release tarball from 
scummvm.org, search the README for Maemo and try.

Frantisek