Re: [q-lang-users] Q in FC6

[Tim H. <q...@st...>]

"Burton Samograd" <kr...@gm...> writes:

> Hi Albert,
> 
> > Burton Samograd wrote:
> > > I'm working on getting ebuild's written for Gentoo, almost as we
> > > speak.  I have the core interpreter installation working that handles
> > > USE flags properly (AFAIK), and I'll be working on the add on modules
> > > as I find time.
> 
> I submitted my Q-7.5 ebuild to gentoo.  Those who wish to try it can
> find it here:
> 
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=156102
> 
> I tested it and it works fine on my system and since it mostly
> autoconfigures itself when packages are present, the ebuild just
> disables features if certain USE flags aren't set. Hopefully I managed
> to get everything right with all of them.

OK, I've got it installed and basically functional here on an athlon-xp box:

[ebuild  N    ] dev-lang/q-7.5  USE="curl gdbm gmp iconv imagemagick odbc readline threads unicode xml -X -dmalloc -freetype -ggi -nls -tk -virtual/libc" 0 kB [1]

I note 3 things:
a) isn't GMP more a requirement for Q than an optional USE thing?

b) interestingly, you've got the odbc option but it rebuilt libiodbc as a
dependency before building Q. Not that I'm complaining[1], of course.

c) A minor (probably only visual) niggle. This strikes me as having a few
too many commas for my sanity:

 | ==> import odbc
 | 
 | ==> def H=odbc_connect "DSN=pgstraw"
 | 
 | ==> sql H "select count(*) from gallery" ()
 | [("count",),(1770,)]
 
I have both unixODBC and iODBC installed; on this box, Q's odbc.so is
linked against unixODBC; neither iodbctest nor isql hint at a second
column; versions of Q >=6.2incl exhibit this spare comma. I note I can type
[1,2,3,] into the interpreter and get back [1,2,3] for my trouble (so I'd
expect the above resultset display to be normalized too). Am I missing some
update somewhere?


[1] <cough> I'm also webmaster for iodbc </cough>

~Tim
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