[Gambas-user] Problems building Gambas3 on Mageia2

[RICHARD WALKER]

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.walker at ...247...> wrote:
> On 06/06/2012, Matteo Pasotti <matteo.pasotti at ...626...> 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 at ...2863... 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
>