[Gambas-user] Problems building Gambas3 on Mageia2

[RICHARD WALKER]

I think I have spotted a possible mistake on my part; I left off the
-C from ./configure -C.

I haven't seen that before, so I have no idea what effect it might
have, but I am re-configuting now and will soon start my 4th build.

R

On 06/06/2012, RICHARD WALKER <richard.j.walker at ...247...> wrote:
> The long preparation, configuring making and installing of Gambas
> 3.1.90, revision #4809 I think, completed without apparent error.
>
> Part of the preparation was to fetch the Mageia 2 Gambas 3 (sounds
> like a football score) source rpm (version 3.1.1) and install it so
> that I could (1) get any of the missing build requirements, and (2)
> test build to check the environment. The rpm rebuild was trouble-free
> and all have been installed. So far, so good.
>
> I have uninstalled the 3.1.1 packages and done the reconf-all,
> configure, make bit. This took several hours, with a two hour car
> journey in the middle, but from shaky memory the only advisories I got
> were about jit and gnome desktop not being built.
>
> When it came to installing everything I was belatedly advised that
> several components were missing:
> gb.qt4
> gb.qt4.opengl
> gb.xml.rpc
> gb.xml
> gb.xml.rpc
> gb.xml.rpc
> gb.xml.rpc
>
> Probably as a consequence, I could not get anything to work; ide,
> previously built gambas projects, no menu entries, that sort of thing.
>
> So I was wondering, are there some new requirements for building the
> current Gambas 3 over and above those which are used to build version
> 3.1.1?
>
> Richard
>