Re: installing gnatsweb

[Wes Barris]

On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 08:36:01PM +0100, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, Wes Barris wrote:
> > Is there any documentation on installing gnatsweb other than what is
> > in the file gnatsweb-2.7beta.tar.gz?  I am new to gnats and gnatsweb
> > and have spent weeks trying to get gnatsweb to work without any luck.
> >
> > I have installed gnats on a Redhat 7.0 system by installing the following
> > two rpms:
> >
> > address@hidden rpm -qa | fgrep gnats
> > gnats-3.113-5
> > gnats-db-3.113-5
> >
> > I have downloaded gnatsweb from here:
> >
> > ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/gnats/contrib/gnatsweb-2.7beta.tar.gz
> 
> My recommendation would be to use the CVS version of GNATS and gnatsweb
> as you'll find them on http://sources.redhat.com/gnats/.

Thanks.

I did that then ran ./configure.  That ran without errors.  When I
typed "make", I got this error:

gcc -c -I. -I. -I./../include  -g -O2 -W -Wall -W -Wall -ansi -pedantic -Werror 
-Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wwrite-strings -Wno-format  
-DHAVE_CONFIG_H 
-DGNATSD_USER_ACCESS_FILE=\"/usr/local/share/gnats/gnatsd.access\" 
-DGNATSD_HOST_ACCESS_FILE=\"/usr/local/share/gnats/gnatsd.host_access\" 
-DDEFAULT_GNATS_SERVICE=\"support\" 
-DGLOBAL_DB_LIST_FILE=\"/usr/local/etc/gnats/databases\" -DGNATS_USER=\"gnats\" 
database.c
p fconf -b fconfig -d ./fconfig.y
make[1]: p: Command not found
make[1]: [fconfig.c] Error 127 (ignored)
gcc -c -I. -I. -I./../include  -g -O2 -W -Wall  -DHAVE_CONFIG_H 
-DGNATSD_USER_ACCESS_FILE=\"/usr/local/share/gnats/gnatsd.access\" 
-DGNATSD_HOST_ACCESS_FILE=\"/usr/local/share/gnats/gnatsd.host_access\" 
-DDEFAULT_GNATS_SERVICE=\"support\" 
-DGLOBAL_DB_LIST_FILE=\"/usr/local/etc/gnats/databases\" -DGNATS_USER=\"gnats\" 
fconfig.c
gcc: fconfig.c: No such file or directory
gcc: No input files
make[1]: *** [fconfig.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/wes/gnats/gnats'
make: *** [all-gnats] Error 2
address@hidden> 


I'm trying to dig through the make process to find out why.  Has
anyone else seen this?  I can't be the only one having trouble building
gnats/gnatsweb.

> 
> I do hope we can have some GNATS 3.99 (or even 4.0) soon, and I noticed
> that Milan has been doing quite some work during the last months.
> 
> > I must be doing something wrong but I don't know what.  Does anyone
> > use gnatsweb?  Does it really work?  HELP!
> 
> Yes, it works, and we're using it on gcc.gnu.org, for example; the problem
> is that GNATS 3.x and GNATS 4.x/current development versions are not
> compatible. I hope the situation will improve a lot, once we have a
> new release of GNATS, the first for more than half a decade!
> 
> If you have any improvements for the documention of gnatsweb as it is in
> the current CVS sources, patches will be *extremely* welcome.
> 
> In fact, *any* help with gnatsweb (patches, docs,...) are most welcome!
> 
> Gerald
> -- 
> Gerald "Jerry" address@hidden http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/~pfeifer/

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