Debian bug report logs - #1354, boring messages

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Subject: Bug#1354: bigloo: several problems (ELF, packaging, manpage)
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              Dept. of Mathematics & Computer Science,
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Date: Tue, 12 Sep 1995 12:27:15 +0200 (MDT)
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Package: bigloo
Version: 1.7b-2

1. Problem noted when compiling using elf-libc 5.0.9-2.

   The following piece of code appears in distribution/bigloo.h.tail,
   and is therefore included in distribution/bigloo.h and in lib/1.7/bigloo.h:
--
#if( !defined( __alpha ) )
extern int toupper(), tolower();
#endif
--

  This breaks ELF compiles, since toupper and tolower are actually
  macros calling internal functions in the ELF <ctype.h>.
  <ctype.h> is the standard location for toupper and tolower
  (according to appendix B of Kernighan & Ritchie, 2nd edition).

  Solution: replace the aforementioned code with
--
#include <ctype.h>
--
  (Perhaps the #ifndef __alpha is still needed, although I can't imagine
  why).

  Declaring library functions extern instead of including appropriate
  headers is a Bad Thing.


2. The Makefile starts several "make"s in a subshell (parentheses
   construction), without doing a subsequent "|| exit 1".
   Errors in sub-makes therefore do not necessarily cause errors
   in the top make. A compile can therefore look like it succeeded
   ("make gave no error"), while in fact it went wrong.
   A result of this is that "debian.rules binary" can produce an invalid
   debian package.


3. The Makefile uses the "@" construction to suppress command echoing.
   This can cause much confusion.


4. Nitpicking: small manpage fixes.
   Can a native speaker go over these fixes and the manpage please?
   Some words ("genericity") and constructions ring alarm bells with me,
   but I can't be sure if they are errors.

-- cut me --
--- documentation/bigloo.1.orig	Mon Sep 11 21:39:05 1995
+++ documentation/bigloo.1	Mon Sep 11 22:03:00 1995
@@ -60,13 +60,13 @@
 Do not load an init file.
 .TP
 .B -s
-compile silently. Print only warning and error messages.
+Compile silently. Print only warning and error messages.
 .TP
 .B -v
-be verbose, print some compilation information.
+Be verbose, print some compilation information.
 .TP
 .B -i
-interprete rather than compile the \fIinput\fR. If no input file is
+Interpret rather than compile the \fIinput\fR. If no input file is
 specified then enter the read-eval-print loop.
 .TP
 .B -E
@@ -98,9 +98,9 @@
 Produce some debug information for \fI.o\fR file.
 .TP
 .B -unsafe[\fIatrsv\fR]
-The compiler produces `runtime safe test' to ensure the safety of the
-executable. It's possible to suppress several or all this runtime test.
--unsafe suppress all of it. Here are the meaning of the partial flags:
+The compiler produces `runtime safe tests' to ensure the safety of the
+executable. It's possible to suppress several or all of these runtime tests.
+-unsafe suppress all of them. Here are the meanings of the partial flags:
 .RS
 .RS
 .TP
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@
 .TP
 .B s
 Don't check that an object is a well tagged structure before accessing
-to a field. This option is a specialisation of the -t flag.
+a field. This option is a specialisation of the -t flag.
 .TP
 .B v
 Don't check version soundness.
@@ -182,7 +182,7 @@
 but they are not. If you want `call/cc' use this option.
 .TP
 .B -mklib
-Use the compiler to compile the bigloo's librarie. This needs a compilation
+Use the compiler to compile the bigloo's library. This needs a compilation
 special mode.
 .TP
 .B -mkheap
@@ -220,7 +220,7 @@
 Set the environment size (in megabytes). The default value is 4.
 .TP 16
 .B BIGLOOLIB
-The path to find the Bigloo's librarie.
+The path to find the Bigloo's library.
 .TP 16
 .B BIGLOOINCLUDE
 The path to find the Bigloo's include.
-- ouch --


Please go over these problems/suggestions, and pass them on to the
upstream maintainer if they are considered valid.

Ray
--
PATRIOTISM  A great British writer once said that if he had to choose
between betraying his country and betraying a friend he hoped he would
have the decency to betray his country.
- The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan

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From: iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson)
To: jdassen@WI.LeidenUniv.NL (J.H.M.Dassen)
Subject: Bug#1354: Acknowledgement (was: bigloo: several problems (ELF, packaging, manpage))
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