Hi Tzafrir, It seems that things got messed up somehow with the tarball. I downloaded r2l-0.9.4.tar.gz from
http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/R2L/r2l-tarball/ and there are problems compiling it under Solaris. It seems that there is a problem with the following line in the configure script: fribidi_config_version=`$FRIBIDI_CONFIG $fribidi_config_args \ --version | sed 's/[^0-9]*\([0-9]*\).\([0-9]*\).\([0-9]*\)\..*/\1.\2.\3/'` For some reason the fribidi_config_version variable gets messed up (it's something like 0..) After I remove the sed stuff, the configuration script proceeds normally. However when trying to compile the package gmake PREFIX=/tmp/emild/r2l-install the compilation aborts because r2l-config does not exist. I think that the problem is caused by the fact that install-sh does not allow multiple files to be copied such as: install-sh -c file1 file2 dir Each file must be installed separately. Therefore you should probably replace the line in r2llib's Makefile with a for loop that installs each file separately, i.e. replace $(LIBTOOL) $(INSTALL) -c $(PROGS) $(CONFIG_BIN) $(BINDIR) by for file in $(PROGS) $(CONFIG_BIN); \ do $(LIBTOOL) $(INSTALL) -c $$file $(BINDIR) ; \ done The compilation proceeds after this but aborts further with ../.././install-sh command not found. I think that this error is due to some messed up TOPDIR, but I think that the main reason is that the tarball is somehow not up-to-date. Also looking at the biditext.in file it seems to be the same as the old one (i.e. no support for --auto-refresh). This ensures me more that the problem is with the tarball version. BTW, the version of biditext I provided will not work on Solaris because Solaris's sh does not support the syntax export variable=value This means that you will have to change such lines to: variable=value export variable Regards, Emil On Wed, 2 Jan 2002, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > r2l 0.9.4 is available. Main changes from 0.9.2: > > * the binary r2l is now installed (unless using a system r2llib, because > it may have a different r2l binary) > > * refreshd_hook.so is optionally loaded when running biditext (using > --auto-refresh) > > * Everything compiles, also on solaris. > > Things to verify: > > * refreshd on solaris: does it run? > * Any problems left with tha system version of r2llib ? > > On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, guy keren wrote: > > > > > On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > > > > I'm generally quite satisfied with this one (even though I have some > > > problems when trying to build it on other platforms, mainly with > > > refreshd, I can live with that) > > > > > > So I'd like to hear some success stories, and then get 1.0 out. > > > > i am trying it out here now (redhat 6.2 with various manual changes). > > > > first, some output i see in the configure script's output on the screen: > > > > checking for gnome - version >= 1.0... ./configure: test: integer > > expression expected after-lt > > yes > > > > there's some problem with the test there. i see this again later when > > checking for another component. running with '-x' reveals the problem is > > with 'gnome_wanted_micro_version' being set to an empty string, rather > > then a number,at line 835, and thus the 'test' on line 2581 yields a > > syntactic error. > > > > This should be fixed. I modified aclocal/ac_check_generic . I'm not sure > my solution is optimal, but it seems to work. (I ignore everything after > the third number) > > > the other component with a problem is 'r2llib'. on line 1014. what happend > > is that 'r2llib-config --version' here returns '0.32', while the script > > seems to expect '0.3.2', and this the script sets > > r2llib_config_micro_version to an empty string. please note that i have a > > copy of r2llib installed in the system, and i also get a warning about it: > > > > configure: warning: Using system version of r2llib from > > /usr/local/bin/r2llib-config > > > > This may not be solved. > > > another thing - when i ran 'make install', then after the installation, an > > 'install' script is being built - either it should be built _before_ > > installing the files, or it shouldn't be built at all - but certainly not > > be built as the last operation of 'make install'. > > Solved. I needed to use install-sh instead of install.sh . This is a weird > interaction between autoconf and make. > > > > > now, running biditext causes applications to crash during startup (tried > > with 'netscape' [which crashed] and with'gnome-terminal'. gnome-terminal > > itself didn't crash, but a lynx ran under it crashed with a bus error). > > > > i decided perhaps my local copy of r2llib is at fault, so i manually > > removed it (removing all files from /usr/local/lib/libr2l* and > > /usr/loacl/bin/r2l*, including the insalled r2l applets). when i did that, > > the configure script barfed that i don't have a version of 'r2llib', and > > then barfed that i don't have the right version - it shouldn't go checking > > the version if it doesn't find the library. nontheless, it ran to the end. > > > > This warning is very frightening. Maybe make the check for a system r2llib > optional? > > > the 'r2l' program was not installed in the system - which is not good, > > since its being used by the 'biditext' shel script.the newly resulting > > biditext still caused netscape to crash with bus error during startup. > > > > Done. > > > > > i also noticed that you're not using the latest version of r2lgnomepapplet > > - which is more visually appealing then the current one, and also > > suppports the '--minimal' flag shlomi has requested. i'll send you its > > sources in the next email. > > > > What you sent me was an exact copy of what I already have. The gnome > applet indeed does not support "--minimal". > > -- > Tzafrir Cohen /"\ > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign > Taub 229, 972-4-829-3942, X Against HTML Mail > http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir / \ > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Haifa Linux Club Projects Mailing List (http://linuxclub.il.eu.org) > To unsub send an empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Haifa Linux Club Projects Mailing List (http://linuxclub.il.eu.org) To unsub send an empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
