Re: Ubuntu 12.10 Binary Packages & GNUstep Debug & Analysis Tools

[Jeffrey Thompson]

Thank you Philippe!  I specifically was looking for the commands to create the 
Debian binary packages which you gave me in your response back to me.  That 
sounds excellent Philippe.

I will definitely install your packages on Ubuntu 12.10 amd64 and let you know 
how it works out.

I have another question for you if you don't mind.  Do you use the Garbage 
Collection library or do you manually manage the Retain/Release counters along 
with auto release pools?  I have been doing some testing with manually managing 
them and it appears there is potential to have memory leaks from objects that 
either get allocated and never released properly or get allocated and released 
before the program is finished with them.

I have been overloading the dealloc methods to actually see objects getting 
reallocated when I release and the retain counter goes to zero and I can get 
pretty close (I think) to the right solution but it still is an area of concern 
for me.

Also, can you suggest a debug / analysis tool that works on Ubuntu / Debian 
Linux that I can use to watch for memory leaks.  Is GDB the tool?  I'm not 
exactly sure how to monitor & analyze for potential memory leaks and possible 
object references that get deallocated... Besides the program crashing :)

Thanks again.
--
Jeffrey Thompson
JANOAH, INC.
jeffrey@janoah.net

On Jan 12, 2013, at 1:05 PM, Philippe Roussel <p.o.roussel@free.fr> wrote:

> Hi Jeffrey,
> 
> On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 02:00:29PM -0500, Jeffrey Thompson wrote:
>> Can you list the process of creating the Debian binary packages?  I have
>> successfully compiled the "gnustep-base" 1.24.0-1ubuntu1 source package in
>> Ubuntu for at
>> https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnustep-base/1.24.0-1ubuntu1 for amd64
>> on Quantual (Ubuntu 12.10).  It seems to be working great.
>> 
>> I can successfully compile and install the source-code using the
>> "dpkg-buildpackage" tool.
>> 
>> I was just looking for some pointers on the process of packaging up the
>> compiled code into apt-get binary packages like you have done for all of
>> these packages.
>> 
>> If I can get them into a binary package I would be glad to make the package
>> available for download if anyone is interested.
> 
> I'm sorry, I'm not sure I understand what your asking for.
> 
> I'm not using the source packages but a copy of the latest source code
> I can find for every package (from svn, cvs, tar.gz etc). I then add the
> necessary debian/* files, gathered from an existing package when
> possible or created, and use the pdebuild tool to build each package
> in a chroot.
> 
> When all .deb are built, the following commands are run :
> 
> apt-ftparchive packages . > Packages
> apt-ftparchive contents . > Contents
> apt-ftparchive release . > Release
> gpg -abs --yes -q -o Release.gpg Release
> 
> I should probably build source packages and then binary packages from
> those but I already had a hard time to put this together so I'm not
> going to change my setup right now :)
> 
> Anyway, I just built the packages for Quantal amd64, you can find them
> here (they are untested) :
> 
> http://coyote.octets.fr/pub/gnustep/packages/quantal/amd64/
> 
> You can use the following apt source :
> deb http://coyote.octets.fr/pub/gnustep/packages/quantal/amd64/ ./
> 
> Let me now if you test them.
> 
> Thanks,
> Philippe
> -- 
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> marsupiale. Alexandre Vialatte
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