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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