Survex 1.1.6 development snapshot uploaded

[Wookey]

+++ Andy Waddington [05-10-10 23:21 +0100]:
> On Monday 2005-10-10 21:45, Olly Betts wrote:
> > I've been busily coding away, so it's about time for another snapshot.
> > You can download 1.1.6 from:
> > 
> > http://www.survex.com/software/1.1.6/
> 
> Hmm, I've recently installed Debian sarge, and for the first time on
> anything other than a RISC PC, got a recent survex to work - I met
> all the dependencies of the 1.0.34 .deb package.

Goog - that's how it is supposed to work.

> The INSTALL file for 1.1.6 says "you might want to install one of
> the prepackaged Linux versions". Well there isn't one, so "building
> from source is very easy ..."

You can download pre-built binaries for the dev version from here:
http://survex.com/download.html?platform=debian

which you should just be able to dpkg -i survex survex-aven once downloaded.

> Following the (bog-standard) instructions, the ./configure script
> whinges a bundle

You are on a Debian machine: whilst building with plain configure etc can no
doubt be made to work it's not the 'debian way'.

Try changing to the dir containing survex 1.1.6 and do debuild
(possibly installing debuild first).

That will download needed dependencies for you and do the right building
runes.

> 1) checking for X ... no
> 
> despite the fact that I am running the script in a Konsole window
> on a KDE desktop - looks to me that I have X ! xcaverot and aven from
> 1.0.34 also seem to believe I have X :) XFRee86 -version says I have
> XFree86 v 4.3.0.1

hmm odd. No reasons to think that building in the proper debian way will
help much here, but give it a go.

> 2)
> 
> checking for wxgtk-2.6-config ... no
> checking for wxgtk-2.5-config ... no
> checking for wxgtk-2.4-config ... no
> checking for wxgtk-config ... no
> checking for wx-config ... no
> configure: error: wxWindows not found
> 
> so I tried
> 
> apt-get install wxgtk-2.6-config
> ...
> apt-get wxWindows
> 
> all of which say "Couldn't find package <whatever>"
> 
> Nothing in the INSTALL or README file sys what packages I need to install
> to meet the dependencies for the build. So I'm stuck. I presume this is a
> documentation issue, rather than a software one ?

Not really - it's a process issue. If you use the debian build process then
it knows what packages it needs and will either get them or tell you it
can't.

try that and see how it goes.

If you want to do it manually, look in debian/control to see what the
build-dependencies are.

Wookey
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