Hi Adam, > Apologies for the long delay in replying since your message arrived. > I've been very busy, and just yesterday finally compiled Salomé. No problem, I have been busy too last week and I am now coming back on Salomé. > > > I made the KERNEL and GUI modules work this morning on the 5.1.3-5 > > release. I have enclose the patch 'kernel-gui-building.patch' that > > should be applied on the revision: > > > > 862cebe157a4ce50984d6fc15758da7d3ca96e2a > > Thu Mar 4 20:29:30 2010 > > Remove troublesome /usr/bin subdirectory from HXX2SALOME. > > > > by: > > > > patch -p1 < kernel-gui-building.patch > > > > The steps for running the resulting Salome are provided inside the patch. > > > > For me, the main problem was that I did not install the shared > > librairies stored in the package libsalome-dev. It explains why > > I could run Salome by ajusting environment variables to debian/tmp/usr > > but never once installed on the system. > > Indeed, you found the problem! The shared libraries themselves are not > in the -dev package, only the symlinks are, but for some reason the -dev > package is required to run Salomé. We'll have to investigate why... Ok, I will add this point to the ticket list. > > > By the way, it is correct > > to have the line: > > usr/lib/*.so > > inside 'debian/libsalome-dev.files'? > > That's fine: the shared library package gets the real shared libraries > *.so.0.0.0 , and -dev gets the symlinks *.so . If the library loading > code needs the .so files, then that's something to fix. Thanks for clarifying this point, it makes sense now. > > > I guess that it is not relevant to run the 5.1.3-4 build again > > if this version works for you. I am now starting a complete build > > with all modules. > > I've built -5 with everything but VISU and NETGENPLUGIN (which don't > build), they're at http://lyre.mit.edu/~powell/salome/ . I am building it but the test server got a problem during the night so I had to start from the beginning this morning. However I could run the GEOM, MED and SMESH modules without problem on the last build. > > There's lots more to do, but having a version which runs seems like a > big milestone. Yes, I agree.
> If you could test it, that would be great. This may > even be worth uploading, so it gets started in the NEW queue, and if all > goes well we can start using the Debian bug reporting system. Excellent, I keep you in touch once I can test. > > By the way, have you had any luck with asking upstream to adopt some of > these patches? Let me know if you need more information about any of > them. I discussed that point with Nicolas yesterday. I am supposed to submit the KERNEL and GUI patches this week. Then I will start to review and test the remaining patches but they look fine. I will also try to have a look at the VISU module because post-processing is an important use case. Best regards, André -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100420132527.ga31...@crater.logilab.fr
