[Gambas-user] gambas on gentoo

[Benoît Minisini]

Le 04/02/2014 09:13, Dominique Michel a écrit :
> Hi all,
>
> First, thank you for gambas. Even if a Linux system is more
> complicated, it remain me my old time with an Amiga in the eighties.
> Simple, powerful and efficient.
>
> gambas is not in portage currently, and it is an old bug report with
> an ebuild at https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=302136
>
> I just updated the ebuild to gambas-3.5.2. When installing it, I get
> the following warnings from portage:
>
>   * QA Notice: Package triggers severe warnings which indicate that it
>   *            may exhibit random runtime failures.
>   * jit_codegen.cpp:6649:33: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer
>     will break strict-aliasing rules [-Wstrict-aliasing]
>
>
>   * QA Notice: Package triggers severe warnings which indicate that it
>   *            may exhibit random runtime failures.
>   * framebufferobject.c:108:2: warning: implicit declaration of function
>     'GenerateMipmapEXT' [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
>   * framebufferobject.c:169:2: warning: implicit declaration of function
>     'GetRenderbuffe

These warnings are not a problem. The warnings on gb.opengl cannot be 
avoided at the moment AFAIK.

>
> and
>
>   * QA Notice: This package installs one or more .desktop files that do
>     not
>   * pass validation.
>   *
>   * 	/usr/share/applications/gambas3.desktop: error: (will be
>     fatal in the future): value "gambas3.png" for key "Icon" in group
>     "Desktop Entry" is an icon name with an extension, but there should
>     be no extension as described in the Icon Theme Specification if the
>     value is not an absolute path
>   * 	/usr/share/applications/gambas3.desktop: warning: value
>     "Application;Development;" for key "Categories" in group "Desktop
>     Entry" contains a deprecated value "Application"
>   *

OK, I will fix that.

For the remainder, I can't help, I don't use Gentoo.

Regards,

-- 
Benoît Minisini