[Slackbuilds-users] Slackbuild side-effects?

[Vincent Batts]

I remember this having been an issue quite some time ago, but i have
not seen it in a while nor heard it reported.
To test, i just did a fresh installation of slackware-13.0, and only
compiled && installed the dependencies of gnucash and gnucash itself
as it currently is on SBo. then as a limited user, i launch gnucash
for the first time and do not get any such errors.
BUT when i
 * copied off those packages
 * then rolled that virtual machine installation back to a time prior
to compiling everything (the clean 13.0 installation)
 * installed the packages (without compiling everything)
sure enough, gnucash can't find /usr/share/guile/1.8/slibcat
the issue is in the slib package and its installation.

SO, i have just rebuilt that package and submitted it.
No need to upgrade to this new 2_SBo build of slib, unless you need a
relocatable package.

Thanks for the report Ed.


Take care,
vb
http://hashbangbash.com/



On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 11:29 PM, King Beowulf <kingbeowulf at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've moved Slackware packages among several of my computers without
> issues.  Occasionally there are some run time or compile time quirks.
> This is a known quirk with quile and slib and earlier versions of
> gnucash.  One workaround is too run gnucash as root to create slibcat
> (a catalog of libs) and then run as normal. I don't run gnucash
> anymore (homebank is simpler and suites me fine as I don't need all
> the bells and whistles and gnome dependancy headaches) but a quick
> googling shows this issue in a number of distributions.  I'm uncertain
> if this is because a full gnome environment is not used, or an
> incompatibility with guile-1.8, or just a permission issue.
>
> -Ed
>
> On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 11:16 AM, Donald Allen <donaldcallen at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >From the slackwiki slackbuilds page: "SlackBuild scripts are simple
>> shell scripts which can automate the compiling and packaging of a
>> program from source." From this statement and since the output of
>> running a SlackBuild script is a Slackware package, I assumed that
>> once a package is built on one machine, it could be installed on other
>> like machines. That appears not to be the case, at least for gnucash.
>> I generated a gnucash package on one x86_64 machine and once installed
>> on that machine, it works properly. However, on another x86_64
>> machine, after installing the packages on which it depends (in the
>> order specified), I installed the gnucash package built on the
>> original machine, and gnucash does not run. I get
>>
>> ERROR: In procedure open-file:
>> ERROR: Permission denied: "/usr/share/guile/1.8/slibcat"
>>
>> The error message is misleading, in that the file is missing, so not a
>> permission problem.
>>
>> I then re-ran the gnucash.SlackBuild on this second machine and
>> installed the resulting package again, and now gnucash works. So it
>> appears that there is at least one (perhaps more) side-effect of
>> running the SlackBuild script that is essential to the proper
>> installation of the program. In other words, just installing the
>> package isn't sufficient. This seems wrong and perhaps a bug in the
>> gnucash script, although I may have the wrong impression of the
>> function of these scripts and their resulting packages (though the
>> sentence I quote above talks about "compiling and packaging", not
>> installing, leading one to believe that there's a clean separation --
>> compiling and packaging is the job of the SlackBuild script,
>> installation is the job of the resulting package).
>>
>> /Don
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