Belpic 2.40

When I had almost finished packaging belpic 2.3.13.full, I contacted upstream to notify them of this fact, also mentioning that I'd replaced their build system (which used simple makefiles with many bugs) with an autotools-based one. To which I got the reply that they'd already prepared a belpic 2.40 in the mean time (available at readers.eid.belgium.be), and that they'd switched to SCons as their build system in the mean time. Since I'd spent quite some time on 2.3.13.full already by that time, I decided to continue to prepare that package, and focus on 2.40 afterwards

Now of course I'm happy that they chose to use something different from plain buggy MakeFiles. I'm less happy that they chose something based on python, a language which I haven't liked, ever, and don't know much about either, but, well. That's their choice, right? I'm also less happy with the fact that it doesn't properly clean up after itself (requiring me to do ugly stuff in my debian/rules clean target), and that it doesn't work. Grmbl.

The build currently fails on a file that hasn't changed, because it can't find a symbol which is defined in a file in the same directory that hasn't changed, either. When I rerun the gcc call with the -save-temps argument and review the preprocessed source, I see that that include file is mentioned, but not included.

Something is clearly wrong here. Guess I'll have to start learning python... hrmpf.

If you care, belpic is the software required to read out the information and keys in a Belgian electronic ID card. Not of much use if you don't need to read Belgian ID cards, though