Hi Andreas,

On Sat, 8 Jun 2019 at 10:25, Andreas Tille <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Liubov and Elmar,
>
> On Tue, Jun 04, 2019 at 08:56:58PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> > Regarding libARB I've got an answer to my question[1] which was CCed
> > to the list but did not arrived in the web archive.  It boils down
> > that libARB should be free:
> >
> >    http://bugs.arb-home.de/browser/trunk/arb_PUBLIB_LICENSE.txt
> >
> > For you this means: Just wait until I managed to separate the free
> > parts from the arb package.  It's quite on top of my todo list.
>
> I was now able to build all dirs mentioned in arb_PUBLIB_LICENSE.txt
> and pushed the result to
>
>    https://people.debian.org/~tille/packages/libarb/
>
> (for sure you can build your on your own from Git[2])
>
> I heavily hacked upstream makefiles and its definitely no clean
> solution but the result looks similar to what we have inside the
> arb package.  However, while the build of those directories that
> are mentioned by upstream as freely licensed I get only
>
>    libARBDB.so    and
>    libCORE.so
>
> while the libarb package build from the arb source contains
>
>    ARB.so   ,
>    libAWT.so  and
>    libWINDOW.so
>
> in addition.  Please check whether Sina might need these or if the
> current build is OK.


When I tried to build SINA with new libarb, I got:

configure:16724: error: in `/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>':
configure:16726: error: Required libraries found missing:
  ARB PROBE library (PROBE_COM/client.a)
  ARB HELIX library (SL/HELIX/HELIX.a)


>   If you confirm that this approach is sufficient
> I'll contact upstream about a license of several files from other
> directories which were needed to successfully build what we have now.
>
> Once we might get an official libarb package we should drop it
> from the arb package and link arb against this.
>
> Kind regards
>
>      Andreas.
>

With regards,
Liubov


> > [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-med/2019/04/msg00041.html
> [2] https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/libarb
>
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