Re: [Flamerobin-devel] make failure in config-options [was: libibpp.so missing SONAME]

[Milan B. <albis@EUnet.yu>]

Damyan Ivanov wrote:
> You said "in process of releasing". Pergaps I misunderstood you, but
> does this mean that contents on 0.4.0-src.tar.gz may change when it is
> "finally released"?

It may, but it most probably wont. By "in process" I meant that we are 
building the packages and haven't completed yet.

> Also, I have a couple of notes about this 0.4.0-src.tar.gz:
> 
> 1) It includes CVS directories, that are unnecessary.

Yes. I usually remove them, but this time I forgot.

> 2) config-options make target fails:
> 
> $ make config-options
> cp: cannot stat `./confdefs/fr_settings.confdef': No such file or directory
> cp: cannot stat `./confdefs/db_settings.confdef': No such file or directory
> make: *** [config-options] Error 1
> (`make all' fails with the above errors, also. right after building
> flamerobin executable)

FlameRobin has somewhat different build system. Since we support 
different compilers and platforms from the same bakefile, some files 
need to be copied. To make a long story short, you can't build in root 
source directory, but need to make a subdirectory for it:

$ tar -xzvf flamerobin-0.4.0-src.tar.gz
$ cd flamerobin-0.4.0-src
$ mkdir build
$ cd build
$ ../configure --disable-shared --disable-debug --prefix=/usr/local
$ make
$ su
Enter root password:
# make install

Few more issues:

You should use --disable-shared and --disable-debug. Of course, you 
should have also built wxWidgets with same flags. Some other 
combinations might work, but I'm not sure about it.

You need wxWidgets 2.6.0 or later. AFAIK, that is not available as 
Debian package, so you need to build it from sources. If you need help 
with it (or anything else), please ask.

--prefix=/usr/local. As I understand, this does not conform to Debian 
guidelines, i.e. you would probably need --prefix=/usr. Currently, the 
configure script does not update the sources, so you'll need to manually 
edit the file: src/config/Config.cpp and change "/usr/local" to "/usr" 
or whatever is needed.

Well, good luck, if you need any help, don't hesitate to ask.

-- 
Milan Babuskov
http://www.flamerobin.org