[Gambas-user] Gambas2 program on ArchLinux

[Tobias Boege]

On Mon, 22 Sep 2014, Rolf-Werner Eilert wrote:
> 
> 
> Am 22.09.2014 11:11, schrieb Tobias Boege:
> > On Mon, 22 Sep 2014, Rolf-Werner Eilert wrote:
> >> Good morning everyone,
> >>
> >> Someone here who knows ArchLinux? I have a student who would like to use
> >> a program I once wrote in Gambas2.
> >>
> >> I told him to install a Gambas2 package, then try the .gambas binary
> >> from me. It does run like this on my own laptop, but not on his machine.
> >>
> >> Anything special we should know about? Or is it possible he didn't find
> >> a Gambas2 but only a Gambas3 for his ArchLinux and just isn't aware?
> >>
> >
> > Very likely. The only Gambas version in the official repositories is 3.5.4
> > and I couldn't find anything in the AUR. He may need to compile a Gambas2
> > by himself. I wish him luck because he may not find those old dependencies
> > in the repositories either (but I don't know if this is going to be a
> > problem).
> >
> > Regards,
> > Tobi
> >
> 
> Thank you, that makes it clearer. I will help him compile an older 
> version, maybe we get it done. It isn't so important to have all the 
> special libraries, it is a rather basic program.
> 

I just tried it out myself here on a not-so-up-to-date Arch Linux and I
needed to change:

  acinclude.m4, line 20:
    AM_CONFIG_HEADER(...) -> AC_CONFIG_HEADERS(...)

then ./reconf && ./configure brought me:

  THESE COMPONENTS ARE DISABLED:

  - gb.corba
  - gb.db.firebird
  - gb.db.sqlite2
  - gb.qte

which is pretty good.

Compilation failed later in gb.qt.kde and gb.pdf but without these, it ran
through! Note that I run the Trinity desktop (3.5.13) which builds on QT3
(3.3.8d), so I had the bonus of having old QT libraries installed (whether
that's a "bonus" clearly depends on context :-) Here, it is a bonus) which
were indeed used for building gb.qt.

Regards,
Tobi

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