Re: Binary version of Debian
"James B. Byrne via Aubit4gl-discuss" <[email protected]> Thu, 14 Jan 2021 15:41:12 -0500
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On Thu, January 14, 2021 15:12, Mike Aubury wrote: > You're always best off trying to compile from source. > I tried that first and I was no more successful with compiling on Debian than I was on FreeBSd. Somewhat less so actually. I created a debian vm to either get the binary to work or the source to compile aubit4gl for evaluation. Aubit4GL has to runon FreeBSD eventually to be considered but for now I need to discover if the language will meet the needs of the project. The Binary does not work, and so I tried to compie: The documentation at http://aubit4gl.sourceforge.net/aubit4gldoc/manual/index.html contains these instructions: a) Make sure you have all the prerequisites listed at the top of this page! Ncurses is installed; Postgresql-11 is installed and initialized; iODBC is installed; gcc (Debian 8.3.0-6) 8.3.0 is installed b) If you are getting sources . . . The test directory and contents were created using: tar -xf ~/Downloads/Aubit4GL/aubit4glsrc.1.5.2.tar.gz c) Make sure you have iODBC manager . . . There is no program named odbctest. A program named iodbc-config produces this: # iodbc-config iODBC Configuration Script iODBC Driver Manager 3.52.9 Copyright (C) 1996-2014 OpenLink Software Please report all bugs to <[email protected]> Usage: iodbc-config [OPTIONS] [LIBRARIES] Options: [--prefix[=DIR]] [--exec-prefix[=DIR]] [--version] [--libs] [--static-libs] [--libtool-libs] [--cflags] [--odbcversion] [--odbcini] [--odbcinstini] Libraries: iodbc d) Set your environment. Take a look at 'aubitenv' file in Aubit directory There is no file named aubitenv provided in the tar archives. From the documentation I have done this: export AUBITDIR=/home/byrnejb_hll/Projects/aubit4glsrc && \ export PATH=$PATH:$AUBITDIR/bin && \ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:$AUBITDIR/lib echo $AUBITDIR $PATH $LD_LIBRARY_PATH /home/byrnejb_hll/Projects/aubit4glsrc /home/byrnejb_hll/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games:/home/byrnejb_hll/Projects/aubit4glsrc/bin /home/byrnejb_hll/Projects/aubit4glsrc/lib e) configure your .a4glrc defaults; they are used in the compiling of the compiler . . . I do not have a .a4glrc file provided in the distribution. f) cd to $AUBITDIR; type 'make'; don't look at all this warnings, they are not important at the moment. [aubit4glsrc]$ cd $AUBITDIR [aubit4glsrc]$ make /bin/sh: 1: rpm: not found /bin/sh: 1: rpm: not found /bin/sh: 1: rpm: not found /bin/sh: 1: rpm: not found find: /SRPMS/: No such file or directory find: /RPMS/: No such file or directory Makefile:40: incl/Makefile-common: No such file or directory make: *** No rule to make target 'incl/Makefile-common'. Stop. I followed the instructions exactly as given and for me they do not work. If I run ./configure then I get this result: $ ./configure checking Aubit version... -1.5.2- checking cached information... ok checking for working aclocal-1.4... missing checking for working automake-1.4... missing checking for working makeinfo... missing # requires textinfo package on Deb checking for bison... no # requires bison pkg on Deb checking for bash... /usr/bin/bash sh: 0: Illegal option -- configure: WARNING: Your 'sh' executable is NOT the same as 'bash'. This may cause problems . . . WARNING: (5) LIBS contains -ldl +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | *** WARNING *** | | Will use pre-compiled parser files from tools/no_yacc | | Use 'make refresh.noyacc' on source tree with yacc installed. | | You will need lex to regenerate the Aubit parsers. | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | *** WARNING *** | | Will use pre-compiled parser files from tools/no_yacc. Use | | 'make refresh.noyacc' on source tree with yacc installed.You will | | need Bison 1.875 if you'd want to regenerate the Aubit parsers. | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | *** WARNING *** | | You have specified one or more --with-xxxx=<path> switches to | | 'configure' script, specifiying package installed in non-standard | | <path> In most cases, you will have to add this path to your PATH | | and/or LD_LIBRARY_PATH and/or ld.so.conf in your run-time | | environment, for Aubit compilers and compiler programs to be able | | to find nedded programs and/or libraries that belong to this way | | specified package in non-standard place. We will try to do this | | automatically for you: | /usr/bin/bash: line 0: type: pkg-config: not found +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Adding to /etc/ld.so.conf (if possible) : | | | Paths : /lib /lib/esql /usr/local/lib /usr/bin/bash: line 7: /etc/ld.so.conf: Permission denied +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | *** NOTE *** | | One or more optional modules will not be built, because required | | libraries or programs where not detected. | | If this computer is connected to the Internet, | | you should be able to install all of them automaticall by using | | command 'make missing.optional'. | | | | make targets to install this options are: . . . +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | *** NOTE *** | | Aubit 4gl compiler source code is now configured. | | Execute 'make' to compile it. | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ aubit4glsrc]$ make /usr/bin/bash: line 0: type: pkg-config: not found +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | make invoked with flags : | make invoked in : /home/byrnejb_hll/Projects/aubit4glsrc | Reading from root makefile variables: +--------------------- C Compiler settings --------------------------+ | CFLAGS = -Wall -Wredundant-decls -Wmissing-declarations -Wmissing-prototypes -Wstrict-prototypes -g -fPIC -DPIC -DSRC_TREE -DDEBUG -DHAVE_CONFIG_H= -I/home/byrnejb_hll/Projects/aubit4glsrc/incl -I/home/byrnejb_hll/Projects/aubit4glsrc -fPIC -DPIC | LD_LIBRARY_PATH = /home/byrnejb_hll/Projects/aubit4glsrc/lib:/usr/local/lib:/lib::/home/byrnejb_hll/Projects/aubit4glsrc/lib:/lib:/lib/esql +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | COMPILEDATE=14-01-2021 AUBITVERSION=1.5 AUBITBUILD=2 | AUBITDIR=/home/byrnejb_hll/Projects/aubit4glsrc OS=x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu TARGET_OS=linux | CONFIGURE_COMMAND = +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ /usr/bin/make -C lib/libaubit4gl api.headers . . . screen.yacc:2014:6: warning: variable n set but not used [-Wunused-but-set-variable] int n; ^ screen.yacc: At top level: screen.yacc:2421:10: fatal error: lex.a4gl_form_yy.c: No such file or directory #include "lex.a4gl_form_yy.c" ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ compilation terminated. make[2]: *** [<builtin>: y.tab.o] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/byrnejb_hll/Projects/aubit4glsrc/compilers/fcompile' make[1]: *** [Makefile:681: /home/byrnejb_hll/Projects/aubit4glsrc/bin/fcompile] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/byrnejb_hll/Projects/aubit4glsrc/lib' make: *** [Makefile:285: corecompile] Error 2 I am not familiar with Debian. I installed a vm on FreeBSD to try to evaluate aubit4gl on a Linux distribution. I Linux thought would be more compatible with aubit4gl's native environment. But these errors occurred notwithstanding. The documentation for this is obviously dated. I have tried to accommodate this to the best of my ability but I cannot get things to work. I got much further on FreeBSD, where at least I have some idea of where things are. But, aubit4gl still does not run there, and evidently it is not going to run on Debian either without a great deal of work. So what Linux does the binary run on? -- *** e-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** Do NOT transmit sensitive data via e-Mail Unencrypted messages have no legal claim to privacy Do NOT open attachments nor follow links sent by e-Mail James B. Byrne mailto:[email protected] Harte & Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 Canada L8E 3C3