Re: [Gnash-dev] Trying to install Gnash ...

[Willy Gommel]

On Thursday 30 July 2009, Benjamin Wolsey wrote:



> > Hi there!! I have been hitting a roadblock lately in terms of getting
> > 0.8.5 installed at all -- let alone working. On what? On my AMD64
> > 4-CPU machine running Debian Linux using kernel 2.6.26-17.
>
> What is the problem? As far as I can see, the build completes.

Actually, I doubt it. Reason: a number of errors show up on screen and do not
get copied into the file. Therefore, tonight I did another fresh build of
gnash and its test suite, and copied the results off the screen itself. The
results are at http://www.wg3.net/On-screenCompilationErrors.txt -- and I tried attaching it here. However, it didn't make it through.

> > Fourth, I installed all of the dependencies I found listed there --
> > including the docbook ones. Fifth, I ran ./configure again. Sixth, I
> > ran make on the source code. Seventh, I tried to run the test suite.
> > Of course, I must admit and assert that my problems center on the last
> > two steps.
>
> Some of the test failures are due to using an old version of ming,
> including the compile failure that stops your testsuite run. We try to
> support as many versions as possible, but there are too many to get it
> right all the time. A build of ming's current CVS head is best.

I certainly hope that it isn't essential. I went on Ming's web site and
downloaded their version 0.4.2 and compiled that. Hopefully it's up to date
enough.

> --
> Yes, YouTube does work in Gnash
> http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/
>
> Benjamin Wolsey, Software Developer - http://benjaminwolsey.de

N.B.: After a careful review of your technical manual, I found it strongly
suggested there that MAKE CHECK is indeed supposed to display a number of test
files on my screen. Based on that, I'm bound to say that no part of the test
suite is working.

Compile results for that are included as well in my 232.8 KB file on my web site.

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................................................ Willy Gommel
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