[Gambas-devel] Gambas installation...

[Laurent Carlier]

Le jeudi 19 Août 2004 23:10, Bodard Fabien a écrit :
> Le mercredi 18 Août 2004 22:54, Benoit Minisini a écrit :
> > On Wednesday 18 August 2004 22:29, Bodard Fabien wrote:
> > > Hi to all !
> > >
> > > As gambas is an easy to use language... it is mabe a good way to find a
> > > simple solution to install it in many distribution ...
> > >
> > > And .. i've mabe find something like that... http://autopackage.org/
> > >
> > > As i can see gimp and inksckape use it for their project, and i've
> > > installed inkscape without any real problem... The frontend say what
> > > file miss...
> > >
> > > What did you think about that ?
> > >
> > > Fabien Bodard
> >
> > I have tried to install inkscape by using the package from their site,
> > and it fails on my Mandrake. If I launch the program, there is an error:
> > a missing shared library.
> >
> > If will try later when I have more time to understand what happened.
> >
> > The problem is that this system seems to be incompatible with the rpm
> > database in Mandrake. If it installs some library, the rpm database don't
> > know it, and may erase it the next time you use urpmi.
> >
> > Regards,
>
> you certainly miss libsigc++... for inkscape... it's normal... and yes it's
> incompatible with rpm... but the goal of this install system is to permit
> to install the same package every where !
>
> sure it's not really usefull for major distrubution but for minor...
>
> Fabien Bodard
>

A good way should be to improve  (make a new ?) tarball making :

- Create the configure (with various test like gambas version, 
components, ...)
- ...

Then the user should do ./configure, make, make install to install :)
(or with others utility like ant, ...)

-- 

Laurent Carlier