Aw: Re: multiple / parallel installations of gnumeric on one system?

@John Denker ... :-) :-) :-)

took some time, but got it to work,

find below a sort of 'log', not accurate!, of my path through the 'not's' and 'other's' ... most will result from a 'newbie system' missing plenty of options / packets usually present on profi systems ...

was challenging and fun to work through ... again !thank you!,

b.

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1. scripts original in usr/src/gnome,

2. getlibs: already newest,

3. clone: [email protected]: Peermission denied (publickey,gssapi-keyex, gssapi-with-mic).

fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

workaround: git clone https://github.com/GNOME/libgsf

goffice

gnumeric

and manual 'branching',

x1. was needed sometimes during first attempts: 'apt-get install gtk-doc-tools',

after confect?

5. goffice/autogen.logg: Please add the files

codeset.m4 gettext.m4 glibc21.m4 iconv.m4 isc-posix.m4 lcmessage.m4

progtest.m4

from the /usr/share/aclocal directory to your autoconf macro directory

or directly to your aclocal.m4 file.

You will also need config.guess and config.sub, which you can get from

ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/config/.

omitted for the moment, what is the autoconf macro directory [COMMAND_EXIT_CODE="0"]

6. gnumeric/autogen.logg: Please add the files

codeset.m4 gettext.m4 glibc21.m4 iconv.m4 isc-posix.m4 lcmessage.m4

progtest.m4

from the /usr/share/aclocal directory to your autoconf macro directory

or directly to your aclocal.m4 file.

You will also need config.guess and config.sub, which you can get from

ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/config/.

...

It looks like yelp support is not available.

...

Script done on 2021-07-02 07:29:08+02:00 [COMMAND_EXIT_CODE="1"]

omitted for the moment, what is the autoconf macro directory

gnumeric/configure.logg:

./configure: line 18004: syntax error near unexpected token `no-lc-dist'

./configure: line 18004: `YELP_HELP_INIT(no-lc-dist)'

[COMMAND_EXIT_CODE="2"]

omitted for the moment

7. apt-get install yelp: already newest,

8. copied requested *.m4 files found in a former install to goffice/m4 and gnumeric/m4

9. not copied requested config.* files as they already were in goffice and gnumeric,

10. apt-get install automake: already newest,

11. root@kali:/usr/src/gnome# ./WHENCE pull

./WHENCE: line 94: git-pull+: command not found

12. confect: furthermore pls. copy *.m4, It looks like no yelp,

13. copies yelp.m4 from former inst. into gnumeric.m4,

14. confect: ./configure: line 17991: syntax error near unexpected token `no-lc-dist'

./configure: line 17991: `YELP_HELP_INIT(no-lc-dist)'

15. apt-get install yelp-tools

16. autogen.logg still old and 'no yelp support',

17. configure.logg [EXIT="0"]

18. /WHENCE make works now,

19. ./GG: starts gnumeric,

20. ./SS: Usage: ... [OPTION...] INFILE [OUTFILE]

now i have something working ... will see ...

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Gesendet: Donnerstag, 01. Juli 2021 um 16:20 Uhr

Von: "John Denker via gnumeric-list" <[email protected]>

An: [email protected]

Betreff: Re: multiple / parallel installations of gnumeric on one system?

On 7/1/21 1:43 AM, b. via gnumeric-list asked:

> to be able to run two independent different installations in

> parallel. have one window open with 'old' and one with 'new' and

> switch between them as i need or like.

1) Yes, this is possible. I have it set up that way. Rationale:

-- This allows testing of new features, including comparing the

various versions.

-- Users not involved in testing see only the standard version and are

not bother by the testing.

-- Root privileges are not required for routine development work.

2) This requires a lot of steps, some of which are not obvious and not

documented anywhere AFAICT. I have a directory 'gnome' which contains

the following scripts, which automate (and implicitly document) the

steps that I found necessary:

https://www.av8n.com/gnumeric/WHENCE

https://www.av8n.com/gnumeric/confect

Some features (e.g. introspection) I have never gotten to work at all.

The WHENCE script has a usage message that gives a terse outline of

what's going on.

The confect script controls the configuration settings.

The development versions can be invoked via simple scripts that you

can put in your $PATH:

https://www.av8n.com/gnumeric/GG

https://www.av8n.com/gnumeric/SS

This comes with absolutely no guarantees, but it may give you a start

in the right direction.

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