[Chandler-dev] build fails for newbie on Slackware 10.2

[Mike Taylor]

Hi Dave,

On Aug 8, 2006, at 11:59 PM, Dave Curtis wrote:

> Hello,
>   Potential new user here. I followed the build cookbook, but no joy. 
> A quick search of the archives didn't turn up anything related.

Cool - thanks for trying Chandler.  Your one of the first to have tried 
Slackware recently so I am not surprised that not much appears in the 
list archives about it.

If you are looking to try out Chandler you should not have to do a full 
build.  You should be able to go into the chandler/ directory and do 
"make install".  The Makefile will download pre-built binaries and 
create a chandler/release/ directory.  Then you can run Chandler by 
doing ./release/RunChandler

> System: Linux - Slackware 10.2 distribution, Intel architecture
> Sources: Chandler_src_0.6.1.tar

I would recommend that you download the 0.7alpha3 Milestone source 
tarball.

Unless for some library compatibility issue that will soon appear (if 
there is one :) the above should be all you need.  If not then the 
following will help.

> tar: --exclude: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
> tar: *.a: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

I have seen different flavours of tar behave this way, I would love to 
know what version of tar Slackware is using.

The issue is that newer versions of tar do not like the --exclude 
option to follow any file lists.  In the later releases of Chandler 
I've changed the Makefiles to move the exclude option for this reason.

If you do decide to try out 0.7alpha3 then the problem will be solved, 
if not then I can work up a patch for you that will fix the issue.

---
Bear

Build and Release Engineer
Open Source Applications Foundation (OSAF)
bear at osafoundation.org
http://www.osafoundation.org

bear at code-bear.com
http://code-bear.com

PGP Fingerprint = 9996 719F 973D B11B E111  D770 9331 E822 40B3 CD29


-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: PGP.sig
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 186 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part
Url : http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/chandler-dev/attachments/20060809/7aa7414a/PGP.pgp