[Gambas-user] Form embedding, building devel version

[Benoit Minisini]

On Wednesday 12 January 2005 12:05, Rob Kendrick wrote:
> 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. :)

Because Gambas IS an interpreter. But if you like, you can write a compiler 
for Gambas of course :-)

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Benoit Minisini
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