I hate mysteries. I hate it when I get a program installation to work without knowing why it was so stubbornly refusing to install properly for so long.
After a wild-goose chase trying to figure out why I was getting pkg-config warnings (but only for the installed gsl libraries) and discovering that there was a need for a missing gnome-keyring devel package I was still getting the same error when trying to execute gambas3 in a console. I discovered by accident that all the gmbas3 libraries had been installed in /usr/lib !!! Now there was a surprise. Gambas cannot compile without reference to the libraries in /usr/lib64 so why put its own stuff in /usr/lib? I just copied it all over to the right place and, lo and behold, everything works now. On 06/06/2012, RICHARD WALKER <richard.j.wal...@ntlworld.com> wrote: > On 06/06/2012, Matteo Pasotti <matteo.paso...@gmail.com> wrote: >> there's http://gambasdoc.org/help/install/mageia?v3 to know how to >> build gambas3 on Mageia. >> Two devel packages was missing: gsl-devel and qtwebkit-devel, now it >> should be almost complete. >> Let us know if something is missing. > > I used that page to compare with the buildrequires in the mga2 source > rpm for Gambas 3.1.1. > There are quite a few differences, but as I already had executed urpmi > --buildrequires [...].mga2.rpm the two libraries you mention were > indeed already installed. > > My difficulty is in building revision #4809, or rather, it builds > without obvious fault and then makes a mess of the install. My latest > result is an apparently faultless install (don't ask how I achieved > that, I thought I was repeating a known failing method) but still no > obvious evidence that Gambas 3 is really there. There is nothing in > the menu, desktop shortcuts to the ide and to a few pre-compiled > Gambas 3 projects produce no visible result and executing gambas3 in a > console produces the strangest error message: > > [richard@Bathtub gambas3-sources]$ gambas3 > gbr3: no project file in '/usr/bin/gambas3'. > > I have reached tether's end with this one. I had just decided to > update from subversion again when I saw your reply. My intention was > to check out a fix for a bug on xinerama screens which Benoît had > committed in revision #4808. The Big Plan was to analyse the fix and > see if I could derive a patch to apply to MGA2's version 3.1.1, and > then submit that to the maintainer so I could go on using stock Mageia > packages for Gambas (I know my brother would benefit from the fix > too). > > So, if you have no startling insight into why the built gb.qt4 and > gb.xml stuff is not installing (every time) and why the installed > gambas3 is babbling on about a Gambas project file being missing, then > I think I will dump this revision and try tonight's available > offering. > > I might sound grumpy, but I am actually having fun! > > Richard > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Gambas-user mailing list Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user
