ACE for Debian
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== Environment variables ==

If the software you are compiling requires $ACE_ROOT to be set (for
example, the tutorials), you may set it to /usr/share/ace. For bash,
the command to do this is
 
 export ACE_ROOT=/usr/share/ace


Likewise, for TAO:

 export TAO_ROOT=${ACE_ROOT}/TAO


== Compiling examples ==

To compile ACE or TAO examples (in libace-doc and libtao-orbsvcs-doc), you'll
need:
 1. to define ACE_ROOT and TAO_ROOT as explained above.
 2. to install mpc-ace package if needed.
 3. to copy and uncompress the example you want to test, e.g.:

   cp /usr/share/doc/libtao-orbsvcs-doc/examples/CosEC $HOME/ex1
   find $HOME/ex1 -type f -name '*.gz' | xargs gunzip

 4. to regenerate the GNUmakefiles for this new location:

   cd $HOME/ex1
   mwc-ace -recurse -value_project install=. -value_project libout=.

 5. now you can compile your example.
