Re: yet another install difficulty.

At 09:40 04.06.2003 -0700, Michael Stumpf wrote:
>Installed gnats 3.999.2.  Built from scratch.  Everything is happy; I can
>telnet in, login, change database (though I am only using 1.  default).
>
>Installed gnatsweb 2.9.3 as per instructions, but the "make test" command 
>fails
>in a way I've not seen talked about on this forum:
>
>root@moo:/home/mjstumpf/gnatsweb-2.9.3# make test USERNAME=mjstumpf
>PASSWORD=hehehehe DATABASE=default
>perl test.pl
>connect...........................................FAIL
>connect...........................................FAIL
>make: *** [test] Error 1
>root@moo:/home/mjstumpf/gnatsweb-2.9.3#
>
>I've got an /etc/gnats-db.conf file that I believe is valid; if I change the
>name of DATABASE in the 'make test' line I get similar results/complaints as
>others in the forum.  The interesting thing here is that the connect....FAIL
>line is printed twice.. ?
>
>If I 'just go ahead and make install anyway', I get to the login screen 
>with an
>empty database list; logging in 'works' but results in returning to the login
>screen.

Gnatsweb 2.x will not work with GNATS 3.999. Use Gnatsweb 3.99.4 which can 
be found in the contrib subdirectory of the GNATS 3.999.2 distribution.

Yngve Svendsen
Gnatsweb maintainer