Re: Any progress with FIS GT.M?
On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 02:21:28PM -0400, Amul Shah wrote:
> Hi Andreas,
> The next official release of FIS GT.M will include the cmake build and related changes. However, I do not know the date or
> version number of the next official release. If you have any questions about the GT.M release cycle, please ask Bhaskar.
>
> There will be no official FIS GT.M V5.5-000A release. This is a source only release for the first Debian package of GT.M.
For Debian we use source releases anyway - so this is fine. I would
just like to see a tarball without the +"git<revision>+<hash>" addition
for our first release if somehow feasible in the next weeks.
> Luis started with the original V5.5-000 release sources. Due to problems with the build system, we met with the folks at Kitware
> (Luis and Brad) and Yaroslav. The sources were modified to
> - Use cmake for building (which added a few new source.in files)
> - Add source files generated by GT.M
> - Eliminate the deprecated -I- compiler option
> - Fix a bug where using memcpy instead of memmove resulted in access violations
>
> FIS, as the upstream maintainer, will ensure that the next release builds with cmake.
That's really cool. Thanks for all people involved into this move.
Kind regards
Andreas.
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