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Some problems installing gst 2.2
user name
2006-09-05 04:13:28
Hey list,

I'm just learning about smalltalk and found that gst is
probably the best 
implementation there is atm for linux.
However, i've had some trouble installing, nothing
critical, but still 
annoying.

First i just ran
./configure --prefix=/usr

which resulted in an error at the end of the make &&
make install

############################################################
##################

Compiling
/home/manveru/pkgbuilds/smalltalk/src/smalltalk-2.2/elc.1349
0/gst-mode.el...

While compiling toplevel forms in 
file
/home/manveru/pkgbuilds/smalltalk/src/smalltalk-2.2/elc.1349
0/gst-mode.el:
  !! File error (("Cannot open load file"
"comint"))
>>Error occurred processing gst-mode.el: Cannot open
load file: "comint"

############################################################
##################

which i solved by searching on google and finding out that
most likely 
xemacs-sumo is missing for compilation of the el-file.
now i must say that xemacs-sumo is having its own long tail
of dependencies 
and to make this pkg as leightweight as possible i decided
to see what 
options ./configure has to offer.
i found --without-emacs

Yeah! just what i need - i thought...
some compilations and recheckings and make clean and
extractions later i found 
that the option doesn't do anything at all, and so it
forced me to install 
xemacs-sumo with everything (i think that in total it's got
a 40MB, not to 
mention that it has further dependencies on X11...)

oh well, i hope this will be fixed in a new version, or at
least with some 
patch... i guess it's just a mislead iffi or something  [sorry for
the 
lengthy bugreport]

the next thing, after installing - no infopages were
installed... they just 
hang around in the /doc directory
the gst-manpage is there though.

hope this didn't sound too negative, i'm really fascinated
by this language 
and gst works flawless, it's just my concerns for packaging
GST for a broader 
audience (archlinux), since i'm sure they don't like the
perspective of being 
forced to install emacs just for generating of some
emacs-el-file they won't 
even use ;)


Thanks in advance
Michael 'manveru' Fellinger


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Some problems installing gst 2.2
user name
2006-09-05 07:57:48
> Compiling
/home/manveru/pkgbuilds/smalltalk/src/smalltalk-2.2/elc.1349
0/gst-mode.el...
>
> While compiling toplevel forms in 
> file
/home/manveru/pkgbuilds/smalltalk/src/smalltalk-2.2/elc.1349
0/gst-mode.el:
>   !! File error (("Cannot open load file"
"comint"))
>   
>>> Error occurred processing gst-mode.el: Cannot
open load file: "comint"
>>>       

This I just fixed.  I'm now checking for comint.el and not
installing 
gst-mode.el unless it is present.

You will find it in a short while in the CVS version of GNU
Smalltalk.

> which i solved by searching on google and finding out
that most likely 
> xemacs-sumo is missing for compilation of the el-file.
And, I must say, it seems weird that you have to install X11
in order to 
get something as important as comint.  So this is something
you should 
complain about with your distro makers.
> now i must say that xemacs-sumo is having its own long
tail of dependencies 
> and to make this pkg as leightweight as possible i
decided to see what 
> options ./configure has to offer.
> i found --without-emacs
>
> Yeah! just what i need - i thought...
>   
In fact it should be just what you need.  Except that
there's a 
cut-n-paste bug and --disable-emacs would work instead. :-(
> some compilations and recheckings and make clean and
extractions later i found 
> that the option doesn't do anything at all, and so it
forced me to install 
> xemacs-sumo with everything (i think that in total
it's got a 40MB, not to 
> mention that it has further dependencies on X11...)
>
> oh well, i hope this will be fixed in a new version, or
at least with some 
> patch... i guess it's just a mislead iffi or something

[sorry for the 
> lengthy bugreport]
>   
No problem.
> the next thing, after installing - no infopages were
installed...
I see them in $prefix/info.  I don't know if your distro
still has the 
symlink from there to $prefix/share/info.  If not, you may
want to use 
--infodir=/usr/share/info to have the pages installed in the
right place.
>  they just 
> hang around in the /doc directory
> the gst-manpage is there though.
>
> hope this didn't sound too negative, i'm really
fascinated by this language 
> and gst works flawless, it's just my concerns for
packaging GST for a broader 
> audience (archlinux), since i'm sure they don't like
the perspective of being 
> forced to install emacs just for generating of some
emacs-el-file they won't 
> even use ;)
>   
Don't worry -- packaging bugreports are even more useful
than crashes to 
some extent, because packaging hiccups are what will
convince users to 
move away and do not use GNU Smalltalk at all.


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Some problems installing gst 2.2
user name
2006-09-05 08:50:37
>> the next thing, after installing - no infopages
were installed...
> I see them in $prefix/info.  I don't know if your
distro still has the 
> symlink from there to $prefix/share/info.  If not, you
may want to use 
> --infodir=/usr/share/info to have the pages installed
in the right place.

BTW, I am upgrading to autoconf 2.60 which will fix this
problem.

Paolo


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