SN for Red Hat (was Re: Sourcenav for debian)
William Gacquer
wgacquer@ubisoft.fr
Tue Oct 10 12:04:00 GMT 2000
I would suggest following Mo's advice. If you don't want SN to interfer with
the other RPMS, just get the sources and use the "--use-prefix" option in
the configure step.
For instance, I installed SN on tens of linux boxes using the "configure
--use-prefix=/usr/local/snavigator" and it gave me less headache than
playing with conflicts from the sn modified tcl/tk or grep.
In fact, on most of the computers here, /usr/local/snavigator is a NFS
symbolic link. The only thing that one has on his PATH is a shell script
that launches SN.
I'll wait for SN 5.0 RPMS.
When is is scheduled?
William
-----Original Message-----
From: Mike A. Harris [ mailto:mharris@opensourceadvocate.org ]
Sent: mardi 10 octobre 2000 20:40
To: Mo DeJong
Cc: sourcenav@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: SN for Red Hat (was Re: Sourcenav for debian)
On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Mo DeJong wrote:
>> >Great! We really appreciate you help getting SN
>> >packaged up for debian. You are going to run into
>> >the old Tcl/Tk version problems, but I am sure you
>> >already know about that. SN is going to be easier
>> >to get working with Tcl/Tk 8.3.2
>> >(when compared to insight), but it is work
>> >that still needs to be done and tested on all
>> >the platforms we support.
>>
>> I'm working on SN packages for Red Hat as well. Any
>> suggestions/advice you may have would be very much appreciated.
>
>My advice would be, don't bother. We are planning on making
>RPMs for SN once 5.0 is out. This is going to be a long
>process because we also need to update our Tcl and Tk
>installs. When finished, SN will use Tcl/Tk 8.3.2,
>but that is still some months off.
Hmm.. I'm going to take a stab at it anyway just to see what
problems arise as I hate mixing RPM's and tgz installs on a Red
Hat system. If it is too messy, I might just drop the idea
after, but I want to have a shot at it anyways.
I'll post my results here.
Thanks for the warning. ;o)
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