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[wxperl-users] Alien::wxWidgets 0.19 / Wx 0.54 on opensuse 10.1

[Mark D. <mar...@zn...>]

Hi,

Sorry I haven't got a fix for this minor problem, but I do have a
workaround.

I install Alien::wxWidgets 0.19 on SuSE Linux 10.1. I choose to build
wxWidgets when prompted. Everything gets downloaded - everything works OK.

I build Wx. Tests complete OK except that the html and net component
libraries can't be found. Not too surprising as I haven't run ldconfig,
but I thought Alien would get around this for me.

Investigating the problem, I find that the Alien libraries are installed
to the path:

.../Alien/wxWidgets/gtk_2_6_3/lib

In Wx::Mini ,
our $alien_key = 'gtk2_2_6_3_gcc_3_4';

If I edit Wx::Mini to change $alien_key and the paths in sub _alien_path
to include 'gtk_2_6_3' then all works perfectly without any ldconfig
required. (Which is brilliant!)

For info, the config that gets installed is ../Config/gtk2_2_6_3_gcc_3_4.pm

So I guess the problem is that the install path should be getting set to
../Alien/wxWidgets/gtk2_2_6_3_gcc_3_4/


If there's anything I can test let me know.

Regards

Mark

Re: [wxperl-users] Alien::wxWidgets 0.19 / Wx 0.54 on opensuse 10.1

[Mattia B. <mat...@li...>]

On Sun, 30 Jul 2006 19:46:15 +0100
Mark Dootson <mar...@zn...> wrote:

  Hello,

> I build Wx. Tests complete OK except that the html and net component
> libraries can't be found. Not too surprising as I haven't run ldconfig,
> but I thought Alien would get around this for me.

  Reproduced.
 
> Investigating the problem, I find that the Alien libraries are installed
> to the path:
> 
> .../Alien/wxWidgets/gtk_2_6_3/lib
> 
> In Wx::Mini ,
> our $alien_key = 'gtk2_2_6_3_gcc_3_4';
> 
> If I edit Wx::Mini to change $alien_key and the paths in sub _alien_path
> to include 'gtk_2_6_3' then all works perfectly without any ldconfig
> required. (Which is brilliant!)
> 
> For info, the config that gets installed is ../Config/gtk2_2_6_3_gcc_3_4.pm
> 
> So I guess the problem is that the install path should be getting set to
> ../Alien/wxWidgets/gtk2_2_6_3_gcc_3_4/

  That would be ideal, but it is not trivial. I chose to leave alien_key
as it is (it is as intended) and change the search path in _alien_path to
use 'gtk_2_6_3'. Fix is in CVS. Please test and report.

Thanks!
Mattia

Re: [wxperl-users] Alien::wxWidgets 0.19 / Wx 0.54 on opensuse 10.1

[Mark D. <mar...@zn...>]

Mattia,

wxPerl CVS installs perfectly now.

Alien::wxWidgets makes it easy for a c/c++ / Linux novice like myself to
get a working wxPerl without having to worry about avoiding conflicts
with installed wxGTK rpms etc.

Well done and thank you very much!

Mark


Mattia Barbon wrote:
> On Sun, 30 Jul 2006 19:46:15 +0100
> Mark Dootson <mar...@zn...> wrote:
> 
>   Hello,
> 
>> I build Wx. Tests complete OK except that the html and net component
>> libraries can't be found. Not too surprising as I haven't run ldconfig,
>> but I thought Alien would get around this for me.
> 
>   Reproduced.
>  
>> Investigating the problem, I find that the Alien libraries are installed
>> to the path:
>>
>> .../Alien/wxWidgets/gtk_2_6_3/lib
>>
>> In Wx::Mini ,
>> our $alien_key = 'gtk2_2_6_3_gcc_3_4';
>>
>> If I edit Wx::Mini to change $alien_key and the paths in sub _alien_path
>> to include 'gtk_2_6_3' then all works perfectly without any ldconfig
>> required. (Which is brilliant!)
>>
>> For info, the config that gets installed is ../Config/gtk2_2_6_3_gcc_3_4.pm
>>
>> So I guess the problem is that the install path should be getting set to
>> ../Alien/wxWidgets/gtk2_2_6_3_gcc_3_4/
> 
>   That would be ideal, but it is not trivial. I chose to leave alien_key
> as it is (it is as intended) and change the search path in _alien_path to
> use 'gtk_2_6_3'. Fix is in CVS. Please test and report.
> 
> Thanks!
> Mattia