[M3devel] Getting ready for new users (Re: HEADS UP: Release engineering)

[Jay]

The packaging process stages things in /var/tmp/cm3.
I bet the cm3.cfg file says INSTALL_ROOT="/var/tmp/cm3".
It should be fixed, I changed it to say INSTALL_ROOT = (path() & SL & "..").
 
 
 - Jay


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> Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 12:48:22 -0400
> From: hendrik at topoi.pooq.com
> To: m3devel at elegosoft.com
> Subject: Re: [M3devel] Getting ready for new users (Re: HEADS UP: Release engineering)
>
> On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 11:12:38AM -0400, hendrik at topoi.pooq.com wrote:
>> On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 12:05:51PM +0200, Olaf Wagner wrote:
>>> Quoting Jay :
>>>
>>>>
>>>>I tested the LINUXLIBC6 archive and it installed ok, no prompting.
>>>>
>>>>I ran it with no parameters -- unlike Henrik. It did mention the
>>>>current working directory (or its directory, same thing) as the
>>>>install source, which confused me. Probably as long as system.tgz
>>>>exists where it expects, it shouldn't say anything.
>>>
>>> Strange.
>>>
>>> Hendrik, can you reproduce the strange message? And then perhaps
>>> provide a system call trace (ktrace, truss, whatever)?
>>>
>>> Olaf
>>
>> I'll try. I'll probably have to rm -r /user/local/cm3 first. Anything
>> else I need to watch out for?
>
> I haven't done that yet. But I have a program that works
> on the system I managed to set up a month or so ago just by
> unpacking the cm3-min .tgz archive file and setting $PATH to
> point to its bin directory.
>
> I set the $PATH to the version I just installed (with the strangee
> message) deleted LINUXLIBC6, and ran the just-(mis?)installed cm3:
>
> hendrik at notlookedfor:~/mtxt$ rm LINUXLIBC6/ -r
> hendrik at notlookedfor:~/mtxt$ cm3
> --- building in LINUXLIBC6 ---
>
> "/home/hendrik/mtxt/src/m3makefile", line 1: quake runtime error: unable
> to open "/var/tmp/cm3/pkg/libm3/LINUXLIBC6/.M3EXPORTS" for reading
>
> --procedure-- -line- -file---
> import -- 
> include_dir 1 /home/hendrik/mtxt/src/m3makefile
> 4 /home/hendrik/mtxt/LINUXLIBC6/m3make.args
>
> Fatal Error: package build failed
> hendrik at notlookedfor:~/mtxt$ which cm3
> /usr/local/cm3/bin/cm3
> hendrik at notlookedfor:~/mtxt$ env | grep cm
> PATH=/home/hendrik/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/games:/home/hendrik/bin/i686/:/usr/local/cm3/bin
> hendrik at notlookedfor:~/mtxt$
>
>
> I don't know if this could help anyone figure out what went wrong with
> the installation, but it does indicate that it isn't right.
>
> There's noting at all in /var/tmp. Not even a directory /vat/tmp/cm3.
>
> -- hendrik
>
>
>>
>> Now that I think of resetting ... I still had the old cm3-min
>> unpacked somewhere else, and I add its bin directory to the $PATH on
>> a bash startup. Could that have be affecting the results?
>>
>> -- hendrik
>>