I tried to use the patches to build binary packages for Debian. Found
some issues:
gcc/cobol:
- the config-lang.in is provided in both patch 04 and patch 08.
- the installation path for the gcobc script is missing the gcc/
subdir. Does it make sense to ship the script without the udf
files?
- same for cobol/udf/*, also the udfdir macro is undefined, and
the files are missing.
- the installation of the gcobol.1 man page doesn't honor the
prefix and the suffix form the configury.
- gcobol.3 is installed in the root dir, the man3dir macro is
undefined.
- The header files mentioned in gcobol.3 are not installed.
libgcobol:
- the patches are missing the regenerated toplevel Makefile.in
- the shared library is underlinked. There are unresolved
symbols against libm and libstdc++.
- The build uses plain CC for the build, not the _FOR_HOST
and _FOR_TARGET macros passed from the toplevel make.
- the library build is not ready for multilibs.
- configure.ac has reference to a GC enabled variant, however
there's nothing in the Makefile supporting that build.
A simple hello.cob builds, is correctly linked against the shared
library and executes fine.
Is there some cobol based open source project, which could be used for
further testing?
Matthias
