On Friday 30 July 2021 03:32:44 Arjen de Korte via clamav-users wrote: > Citeren Gene Heskett via clamav-users <[email protected]>: > > Well, I've screwed around with this for 3 days now, that's long > > enough. > > > > First gotcha for debian people is cmake is not installed, and when > > installed, it is NOT installed in a directory accessible to the user > > with a default $PATH, so the first thing I have to do is give it the > > full path to where its installed. And apparently there are no man > > pages, strike two. > > > > Second gotcha is cmake needs about 7 or so more bits installed that > > in 23 years of exclusively linux in this house I have never needed > > before just to get thru the configure and build something. Strikes 3 > > thru 9 or 10 > > > > Third gotcha is that the default build puts it in /usr/local, a > > normal occurrence for stuff built from tarballs, without building > > new stuff for /etc/init.d that tells it where to find the > > executables NOW. Depending on a 1/4 baked systemd on an older > > stretch install isn't doing one a bit of good unless perchance you > > are rebooting. > > We can´t blame the ClamAV developers that we're cmake novices. I too > was unfamiliar with cmake, so I'm on a steep learning curve as well. > And it looks like Debian can do a better job by providing a cmake that > actually works. Nothing to blame ClamAV for. > > > Please let us know when this is actually installable and working > > when the notes in INSTALL.md are followed. It is not ready for prime > > time now. > > I beg to differ. I followed the INSTALL.md and it took me less than > two hours tweaking the options to have a similar result as with the > previous autotools. Note that I'm building in a openSUSE system, which > provides %cmake macros in a similar way as %make macros that relieves > one of the burden to figure out the distribution specific settings. I > was pleasantly surprised how smooth the transition actually went. Just > a handful of bugs, but that's what release candidates are for (to iron > them out). > > > You can start by listing the dependencies AND the packages they are > > found in, in INSTALL.md so we can install them without any > > excitement. > > The only additional package I needed was python-pytest, all other > dependencies are identical. > I see by synaptic, that both python-test and python3-test are available. Which is preferred? I'd assume python3-test in order to future proof, but assumptions are where we've gone aglay too many times already.
Thanks Arjen. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> _______________________________________________ clamav-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.clamav.net/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml
