[Kmfl-devel] Installation to Fedora 8 [was: Re: Installaing KMFL in current distros - Ubuntu, Debian, Mandriva, SuSe and Fedora]

[K. S. <sk...@gm...>]

On Dec 5, 2007 4:08 AM, Doug Rintoul <dou...@si...> wrote:
> K. Sethu wrote:
> > Fedora 8 - Compiling from tarballs fail. 0.9.6 RPM binaries of
> > Mandriva 2008 and older RPM binaries of older SuSe also fail to get
> > installed.
> I have generated RPMs for Fedora 8. The only thing missing on the
> development system I just installed was perl-XML-Parser and scim-devel.
> You may also need libxkbfile-devel.
>
> Once the above were installed, I generated rpms by typing
>
> sudo rpmbuild -tb kmflcomp-0.9.6.tar.gz
>
> and installing the resulting rpms (except debuginfo).
>
> then
>
> sudo rpmbuild -tb libkmflcomp-0.9.6.tar.gz
>
>

The above should be libkmfl-0.9.6.tar.gz and not
"libkmflcomp-0.9.6.tar.gz" , right?

> and installing the resulting rpms (except debuginfo).
>
> then
>
> sudo rpmbuild -tb scim-kmfl-imengine-0.9.6.tar.gz
>
> and installing scim-kmfl-imengine-0.9.6-1fc8.i586.rpm.
>

Thanks for the info.

This morning I installed from the 3 tarballs into my Fedora 8
successfully. The procedure I used was the following 3 steps while in
each directory having the expanded contents of the respective tar
ball:

./configure --prefix=/usr
make
sudo make install

perl-XML-Parser had been installed in mine before. Following your tips
I added scim-devel.

Then kmflcomp and libkmfl each got  compiled and installed.

But scim-kmfl-imengine failed (on compiling or installation I don't
recollect now - I am on a different laptop at work on Windoze now
while writing this). However after libxkbfile-devel which you
mentioned as may be needed, scim-kmfl-imengine also got compiled and
installed.

I am curious as to why scim-kmfl-imengine is dependent on
libxkbfile-devel when xkb is a different IME?

> I know there is a way of generating rpms as nonroot but I was lazy and I
> was doing this on a virtual machine so the risk was minimal.
>
> I can email you the RPMs if you wish.

Well, no need. I will myself try and see how rpm is made using
rpmbuild which is new for me. I know to generate rpm using
"checkinstall" in lieu of "make install" but in my Fedora 8 the
checkinstall has some problem to be sorted out.

>I am hesitant to upload them to
> sourceforge. I am not really interested in trying to generate RPMs for
> every distro under the sun every time there is a new version of kmfl.
>

Yes - but if there is demand in future from Fedora users you may have
to do that also or provide guidance on compiling and installing.

I will write on im-switch matter when I get time soon (certainly by
this weekend). im-switch is Also will send the error message in
SuSe10.3 when I go home today.

~Sethu