Re: Hardest part every time :) - start.

[Dragiša Durić]

Hi Gaius,

Thank you for swift response! --disable-bootstrap worked for me, but I
will try this script you sent me next, to sweat this 4-core/8-thread
box I am using a bit :).

Best Regards,
Dragiša 

On Mon, 2020-04-20 at 20:02 +0100, Gaius Mulley wrote:
> Dragiša Durić <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > Hello people,
> > 
> > After some (pretty long time) I am trying to restart my Modula-2
> > projects.
> > 
> > This time I have Ubuntu 18.04 LTS on mu laptop. First thing, of
> > course, I tried to get .deb from floopsie. I got it, installed it
> > and
> > it... failed. Problem is - Ubuntu has libmpfr.so.6 and floopsie's
> > deb
> > is build with .so.4.
> 
> Hello Dragiša,
> 
> yes indeed libmpfr is different between Ubuntu and Debian.
> 
> > Ok, this is easy, I thought... just get source tarball from
> > floopsie
> > and that will unravel.
> > 
> > Yes, but no... No instructions in archive. Presumably, all of us
> > are
> > building .deb's three times per day, or something. Ok, I google.
> > But,
> > Ubuntu does not have dh_make, it has dh_builddev... But in end, it
> > failed. It looks for DEBIAN/control, when I rename debian to DEBIAN
> > it
> > fails because at some step debian/control was missing...
> > 
> > (BTW, I made a number of RPM recipes in past, and RPM is blessing
> > compared to this unholy mess.)
> > 
> > Ok, I give up on .deb. But look, this source archive comes with
> > already combined-in trees. I get into gm2 folder, mkdir build, cd
> > build, ..configure... make SHELL=/bin/bash
> > 
> > Wow, it actually works... Compilation starts and for some time no
> > purple, no cyan... Nice! I leave it and go to sleep.
> 
> it is probably best to use --disable-bootstrap in the configure.
> 
> > Is it possible to get some sensible instructions, or binary
> > releases
> > or anything except "Run son, run from Modula-2, and do not look
> > back!"
> 
> ah yes thanks for the feedback - I'll rewrite the build section of
> the
> manual.  In the meanwhile it might be worth trying out the git repro,
> the master branch is pretty stable:
> 
> $ cd $HOME
> $ mkdir -p GM2/graft-combine
> $ cd GM2/graft-combine
> $ git clone http://floppsie.comp.glam.ac.uk/gm2 gm2-floppsie
> 
> then run this build script:
> 
> $ ./remake-master-test 4   # where 4 is the number of processors you
>                            # want to dedicate to the build
> 
> it will build and run the dejagnu testsuite
> (configured to install everything under $HOME/opt-test).
> 
> (it should also be work if you wanted to test the gm2-9 branch).
> Probably a good idea to read the script and adjust/improve for a
> different build directory and other settings etc
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> regards,
> Gaius
>