[Gambas-user] Form embedding, building devel version

[Rob Kendrick]

Benoit Minisini wrote:
> On Tuesday 11 January 2005 23:00, Rob Kendrick wrote:
> 
>>Rob Kendrick wrote:
>>
>>>I've now built 1.9.1 perhaps a dozen times, and installed it just
>>>as many times, and still not got the IDE out of it.  I'm running
>>>Ubuntu Hoary if that helps spawn any suggestions.
>>
>>I appear to have found the problem.  "make" doesn't actually compile the
>>IDE, "make install" does, and "make install" tries to do rootly things
>>(symlink stuff into /usr/bin in this case) even if it's not running
>>rootly, because it doesn't have any need to, which stops the
>>installation before it's built gambas2.  Could this be changed?  I don't
>>like installing stuff from source into /, because they can be a pain to
>>remove again.
> 
> 
> The only stuff that is installed by this packages in / (like you say) is four 
> symbolic links in /usr/bin. Without these links, things won't work. The rest 
> of the packages is installed under the directory you pass to './configure' 
> with the '--prefix' option (/usr/local by default now).

So what you're saying is that you're unwilling to make the build system 
able to install Gambas as non-root user?

Out of interest, why is the format of a compiled gambas program such as 
it is, rather than a real ELF with the bytecode and forms, that links to 
a runtime library?  That certainly would feel a lot neater, and it would 
get rid of the problem of having to know where the interpreter is. :)

-- 
Rob Kendrick
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