Re: [Reduce-algebra-developers] Reduce on Scientific Linux

[Rainer S. <rai...@gm...>]

Hello Raffaele,

On Tue, 20 Nov 2012 at 12:29 +0100, Raffaele Vitolo wrote:

 > Dear All,
 > 
 > I successfully compiled and ran Reduce on Scientific Linux version 5.4.
 > This is the Linux flavour developed and used by CERN, Fermilab, etc..
 > The packages that allowed me to compile successfully were, besides compiler:
 > 
 > pth
 > pth-dev
 > ncurses
 > ncurses-devel
 > libXft
 > libXft-devel
 > fontconfig
 > fontconfig-devel
 > xorg-x11-proto-devel

That's good to hear!

 > Maybe it is worth to add it to reduce-wiki; I can do it if I have 
 > permissions (actually it seems I don't).

Hmm, as far as I can see, you need to be a member of the "editors" user 
groups.  I don't have the necessary rights to change this. 

 > By the way, it would be nice to have Linux deb and rpm plus a Windows 
 > installer; this would help increasing the Reduce user base. Is there any 
 > work-in-progress on this topic?

Yes. There are directories debianbuild and winbuild directly below trunk, each 
of them containing a README and a Makefile.  

For .deb and .rpm, cd to debianbuild and run make (provided you have all the 
necessary packages installed, see debianbuild/README and 
debianbuild/reduce/debian/control).  The .deb are built and then converted to 
.rpm using alien. I have installed these .rpm on OpenSuse only, but I don't 
expect problems on Redhat or Scientific Linux.

The Windows installer is work in progress. The Makefile assembles all necessary 
files and generates an input file for Inno Setup, with which you can create the 
installable package.  This works, but there are a couple of open issues.

 > I could help with deb, maybe also rpm.

It would help if you could try to build and install the .deb and .rpm files and 
test the Reduce installation.

 > A 
 > preliminary deb (not by me) can be found here: 
 > http://www.getdeb.net/updates/Ubuntu/12.04/?q=reduce
 > I think that some work should be done on it in order to introduce it in 
 > Debian. After this step, the package would probably spread across all 
 > Debian-based distributions.

If you know someone who would be willing to take this up, we'd be grateful. I'm 
afraid that nowadays it is rather difficult to become a debian package 
maintainer.

  Rainer