[AG-TECH] AGtk2.3 Gentoo Questions (and answers???)

[Ti Leggett]

Interesting that that causes a problem. I've been compiling vic and rat
with custom CHOST flags for sometime; however, it does make sense. I'll
look into getting that in the ebuild using the gentoo eclasses that are
already there for doing this type of thing. Thanks for the patches!

On Mon, 2004-11-01 at 15:30 +1100, Rhys Hawkins wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've just got AGtk 2.3 going on Gentoo and had to solve a number
> of issues:
> 
> 1. Compilation of VIC failing due to pthread_equal symbol missing
> (A couple of other people have had the same problem, is there a
> solution yet?):
> 
> This (I think) is due to the auto[conf|make|tools] being a little
> old and not recognising the --host flag that ebuild script gives
> it from the make.conf file. This in turn causes the configure
> scripts not to be able work out how to make/link with dynamic
> libraries so it reverts to static linking which doesn't work 
> properly. The workaround to get past this (which worked for me)
> was to modify the ebuild script and manually set the host:
> 
> /usr/local/portage/ag-media/vic/vic-1.1.13.ebuild:
>        ...
> 38:    cp ${FILESDIR}/vic-1.1.3-config.sub config.sub
> 39:    EXTRA_ECONF="`use_enable debug` --host=i686-unknown-linux"
> 40:    econf || die "Failed to configure vic"
> 41:    emake || die "Failed to make vic"
>        ...
> 
> Note, my CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" (from /etc/make.conf)
> 
> 2. Downloading agtk-2.3.tar.gz failed:
> 
> On closer examination the md5 hash and file sizes were different
> to what was reported in
> "/usr/local/portage/ag-libs/agtk/files/digest-agtk-2.3".  I'm
> assuming the source tar gz recently got updated and someone forgot to
> update the hashes/file sizes in the gentoo package. Can someone
> _please_ confirm this for me. I updated the above file to match the
> source tgz that was downloaded (all the while hoping that anl 
> hadn't been hacked and the agtk source trojan'd) and emerging
> worked from then on.
> 
> 3. Python exception:
> 
> I get the following error when running agpm.py --post-install:
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/agpm.py", line 445, in ?
>     main()
>   File "/usr/bin/agpm.py", line 303, in main
>     tkConf = AGTkConfig.instance()
>   File
> "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/AccessGrid/Platform/unix/Config.py",
> line 65, in instance
>     AGTkConfig(initIfNeeded)
>   File
> "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/AccessGrid/Platform/unix/Config.py",
> line 94, in __init__
>     self._Initialize()
>   File
> "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/AccessGrid/Platform/unix/Config.py",
> line 100, in _Initialize
>     self.GetSharedAppDir()
>   File
> "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/AccessGrid/Platform/unix/Config.py",
> line 209, in GetSharedAppDir
>     raise Exception, "AGTkConfig: app dir does not exist."
> Exception: AGTkConfig: app dir does not exist.
> 
> I fixed this by creating the /etc/AccessGrid/SharedApplications dir.
> 
> Not the smoothest install I've ever done, but the AGtk 2.3 now
> works on my gentoo box.
> 
> Cheers,
>     Rhys
> 
> 
> 
-- 
Ti Leggett <leggett at mcs.anl.gov>