help on installing gnats

help on installing gnats

[Wayne Dernoncourt]

I'm still trying to get Gnats (Gnats 3.113.1) to install and
run on a Solaris system.  The story so far, I've downloaded
the gz file, used gzip -d to extract the file to a tar file,
untarred it to /qtdevel/workspace/wayned/gnats-3.113.1.  I
then used (sorry for the wrapping):

./configure --prefix=/qtdevel/workspace/wayned/gnats-3.111
--exec-prefix=/qtdevel/workspace/wayned/gnats-3.113.1

Then I used make and make install.  This is towards the end
of make install (since the lines are so long and wrapped
arbitrarily, I wrapped them by hand with a blank line
between output lines, trying to stick to natural boundaries,
sometimes I succeeded - I really should've used a shorter
directory path...):
- - - - -

make[1]: Leaving directory
  `/development/qtdevel/workspace/wayned/gnats-3.113.1/libiberty'

make[1]: Entering directory
  `/development/qtdevel/workspace/wayned/gnats-3.113.1/gnats'

PWD=`pwd` eval `if [ -f ./../emacs19/Makefile ] ; then echo
  "EMACSLOADPATH=\`cd ./../emacs19/lisp ; pwd\` ; export
  EMACSLOADPATH ; ./../emacs19/src/emacs" ; else echo emacs ;
  fi` -batch -q -l ./../send-pr/send-pr-el.in \
        -l ./gnats.el -f batch-byte-compile gnats.el
/bin/sh: emacs: not found

make[1]: [gnats.elc] Error 1 (ignored)

make[2]: Entering directory
  `/development/qtdevel/workspace/wayned/gnats-3.113.1/send-pr'

make[2]: Nothing to be done for `gnats-build'.

make[2]: Leaving directory
  `/development/qtdevel/workspace/wayned/gnats-3.113.1/send-pr'

make[2]: Entering directory `/development/qtdevel/workspace/
  wayned/ gnats-3.113.1/gnats/man'

make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all-tools'.

make[2]: Leaving directory
  `/development/qtdevel/workspace/wayned/gnats-3.113.1/
  gnats/man'

/bin/sh ./../mkinstalldirs /qtdevel/workspace/wayned/
  gnats-3.111/share/gnats

mkdir /qtdevel/workspace/wayned/gnats-3.111/share

mkdir /qtdevel/workspace/wayned/gnats-3.111/share/gnats

*** Warning: Must chown gnats /qtdevel/workspace/wayned/
  gnats-3.111/share/gnats

/bin/sh /development/qtdevel/workspace/wayned/gnats-3.113.1/
  install-sh -c -m 644 gnats.el
  /qtdevel/workspace/wayned/gnats-3.111/share/emacs/lisp/
  gnats.el

test -f gnats.elc &&
  /bin/sh /development/qtdevel/workspace/wayned/gnats-3.113.1
  /install-sh -c -m 644 gnats.elc /qtdevel/workspace/wayned
  /gnats-3.111/share/emacs/lisp/gnats.elc

make[1]: *** [install-tools-arch-indep] Error 1

make[1]: Leaving directory
  `/development/qtdevel/workspace/wayned/gnats-3.113.1/gnats'

make: *** [install-gnats] Error 2

09:44:06
/qtdevel/workspace/wayned/gnats-3.113.1
- - - - -

Hmmmm, does emacs need to be installed/available? (I normally
use nedit & vim for editing tasks)

- - - - -

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Re: help on installing gnats

[Hans-Albert Schneider]

Wayne Dernoncourt wrote:
> 
> I'm still trying to get Gnats (Gnats 3.113.1) to install and
> run on a Solaris system.
[...]
> PWD=`pwd` eval `if [ -f ./../emacs19/Makefile ] ; then echo
>   "EMACSLOADPATH=\`cd ./../emacs19/lisp ; pwd\` ; export
>   EMACSLOADPATH ; ./../emacs19/src/emacs" ; else echo emacs ;
>   fi` -batch -q -l ./../send-pr/send-pr-el.in \
>         -l ./gnats.el -f batch-byte-compile gnats.el
> /bin/sh: emacs: not found
> 
> make[1]: [gnats.elc] Error 1 (ignored)

OK, so this is more or less expected.  gnats.el(c) has some
code for a GNATS mode for emacs.  If you haven't got emacs,
gnats.elc (the compiled version of gnats.el) cannot be built,
but on the other hand, you do not need it then.

[...]

> test -f gnats.elc &&
>   /bin/sh /development/qtdevel/workspace/wayned/gnats-3.113.1
>   /install-sh -c -m 644 gnats.elc /qtdevel/workspace/wayned
>   /gnats-3.111/share/emacs/lisp/gnats.elc
> 
> make[1]: *** [install-tools-arch-indep] Error 1

This is a flaw in the Makefile.  Of course, it should not fail
if gnats.elc is not present, which most probably is because emacs
was not found.

Look for the line
	test -f gnats.elc &&  ...
and change it to
	-test -f gnats.elc &&  ...

(i.e., add a "-" as the first not-TAB character).
This tells make that it is OK when this line returns a non-OK
status.

Then, start your make again.


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Re: help on installing gnats

[Wayne Dernoncourt]

On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Hans-Albert Schneider wrote:

> Wayne Dernoncourt wrote:
> >
> > I'm still trying to get Gnats (Gnats 3.113.1) to install and
> > run on a Solaris system.
> [...]
> > PWD=`pwd` eval `if [ -f ./../emacs19/Makefile ] ; then echo
> >   "EMACSLOADPATH=\`cd ./../emacs19/lisp ; pwd\` ; export
> >   EMACSLOADPATH ; ./../emacs19/src/emacs" ; else echo emacs ;
> >   fi` -batch -q -l ./../send-pr/send-pr-el.in \
> >         -l ./gnats.el -f batch-byte-compile gnats.el
> > /bin/sh: emacs: not found
> >
> > make[1]: [gnats.elc] Error 1 (ignored)
>
> OK, so this is more or less expected.  gnats.el(c) has some
> code for a GNATS mode for emacs.  If you haven't got emacs,
> gnats.elc (the compiled version of gnats.el) cannot be built,
> but on the other hand, you do not need it then.

I thought so.  If, on the otherhand, emacs was required to
use gnats, well, thats another story.

> This is a flaw in the Makefile.  Of course, it should not fail
> if gnats.elc is not present, which most probably is because
> emacs was not found.

> Look for the line
> 	test -f gnats.elc &&  ...
> and change it to
> 	-test -f gnats.elc &&  ...
>
> (i.e., add a "-" as the first not-TAB character).
> This tells make that it is OK when this line returns a non-OK
> status.

> Then, start your make again.

I did all of that, it seemed to go to the end.  I'm willing
to bet the sysadmin has a cow over the suid line though:

./../install-sh -c sub-type
  /qtdevel/workspace/wayned/gnats-3.113.1/bin/sub-type

*** Warning: Must make pr-edit suid gnats

- - - - -

The tkgnats.config file is going to take some head scratching
to get through though.

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Re: help on installing gnats

[Dirk Schenkewitz]

Wayne Dernoncourt wrote:
> ...
> 
> The tkgnats.config file is going to take some head scratching
> to get through though.

The only 'new' TkGnats-Version I know of is the one coming with
Gnats-3.999.1. And this one seems to be out-of-date. (I'd say,
better don't use it unless you know what you are doing or you
don't use any of the "advanced" features of Gnats4 (in which
case you could also use Gnats-1.113 or so without difficulties).)

But I this may have changed - I cannot speak about anything in
the CVS !! (I'm sitting behind a firewall and cannot access it.
If the TkGnats-Version in the CVS can deal with additional fields
and other stuff THAT WERE NOT POSSIBLE with Gnats-3.113, please
someone tell me...)

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Re: help on installing gnats

[Wayne Dernoncourt]

On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Dirk Schenkewitz wrote:

> > The tkgnats.config file is going to take some head
> > scratching to get through though.

> The only 'new' TkGnats-Version I know of is the one coming with
> Gnats-3.999.1. And this one seems to be out-of-date. (I'd say,
> better don't use it unless you know what you are doing or you
> don't use any of the "advanced" features of Gnats4 (in which
> case you could also use Gnats-1.113 or so without
> difficulties).)

I can get around in Tcl, sort of, if stumbling around is
getting around<g>.  I'm trying to use something that is:
 - free/cheap
 - easy to use (pretty, people seem to prefer pretty
   interfaces over non-pretty interfaces)
 - works without us having to write it

A colleague and I were talking about the choices and he
asked why we didn't develop something like this in Access.
I pointed out that means we would have to write it,
maintain it, etc.  People have already crossed that bridge
and built a really nice one, lets use that one instead.

I don't what features Gnats 1.113 has, I wonder how 3.999 or
4.0 is.

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