[lsb-discuss] Building and checking a 3.0 compliant package under the 4.0 SDK

[Denis Silakov]

Wichmann, Mats D wrote:
> Jeff Licquia wrote:
>   
>> On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 05:08:34PM -0400, Stew Benedict wrote:
>>     
>>> Jeff Licquia wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Go ahead and send directly to me; I doubt the list needs to see it.
>>>> :-) 
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> Is "30" the correct string? Man page and --lsb-version seems to
>>> imply "3.0" 
>>>       
>> I think this may be what's going on.  I've received the results
>> off-list from Steve, and the errors are consistent with having built
>> for LSB 4.0 and tested for LSB 3.0.
>>     
>
> perhaps the tools should do a little more validation, such as
> rejecting version options that aren't recognized (or being
> more broad-minded about what to accept)?  Perhaps that's 
> part of the task discussed last week to provide an argument
> stress-tester for LSB tools.

Well, lsbcc reports unrecognized values:

~$ LSBCC_LSBVERSION=30 /opt/lsb/bin/lsbcc probe.c
LSBCC_LSBVERSION is set to unrecognized value 30

But it seems that this short message is not noticeable (especially if
you have large build log after it), so maybe we should be more strict
here and fail?

-- 
Regards,
Denis.