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[Bas Spitters <address@hidden>]

I would like to confirm that I get the same error messages here when trying to compile the svn-version on Ubuntu 8.10.

Bas

On Monday 16 March 2009 21:16:48 Paul Zarucki wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I downloaded and installed Ubuntu 8.10 (i386 32-bit version) and tried
> to compile Texmacs 1.0.7. As reported by Andrea Gamba, it fails with the
> following error:
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> g++ -ISystem -ISystem/Boot -ISystem/Classes -ISystem/Files -ISystem/Link
> -ISystem/Misc -ISystem/Language -IKernel/Abstractions
> -IKernel/Containers -IKernel/Types -IData/Convert -IData/Drd
> -IData/Observers -IData/String -IData/Tmfs -IData/Tree -IGuile
> -IGraphics/Bitmap_fonts -IGraphics/Fonts -IGraphics/Gui
> -IGraphics/Mathematics -IGraphics/Renderer -IPlugins -ITypeset
> -ITypeset/Bridge -ITypeset/Concat -ITypeset/Page -IEdit -IPlugins
> -ITexmacs -IEdit/Editor -IEdit/Interface -IEdit/Modify
> -I/usr/include/freetype2 -pthread -Wall -Wno-return-type -O3
> -fexpensive-optimizations -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions -c
> ./Edit/Editor/edit_typeset.cpp -o Objects/edit_typeset.o
> Kernel/Containers/hashmap_extra.cpp: In constructor ‘hashmap<T,
> U>::hashmap(U, tree) [with T = string, U = tree]’:
> ./Edit/Editor/edit_typeset.cpp:358:   instantiated from here
> Kernel/Containers/hashmap_extra.cpp:126: error: no matching function for
> call to ‘copy(tree&)’
> Kernel/Abstractions/basic.hpp:99: note: candidates are: int copy(int)
> Kernel/Types/string.hpp:50: note:                 string copy(string)
> make[2]: *** [Objects/edit_typeset.o] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/paul/Desktop/texmacs-1.0.7/src'
> make[1]: *** [TEXMACS] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/paul/Desktop/texmacs-1.0.7'
> make: *** [debian/stamp-makefile-build] Error 2
> ---------------------------------------------------------
>
> I get the same error whether I compile the source code in the generic
> way (as in my script) or if I try to make a Debian package using the
> procedure adapted from Davide Anchisi as follows:
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> # Add Debian Testing to your list of repositories then:
> sudo apt-get update
>
> # Install some packages we need:
> sudo apt-get install fakeroot dpkg-dev
>
> # Install Texmacs dependencies:
> sudo apt-get install groff texlive-base texlive-extra-utils
> texlive-font-utils texlive-math-extra
>
> # Get the source code and compile it to make a new package:
> apt-get source texmacs
> sudo apt-get build-dep texmacs
> apt-get -b source texmacs
>
> # Install the new Texmacs package:
> sudo dpkg -i *deb
> ---------------------------------------------------------
>
> Could the problem be a missing dependency or do I need the CVS version
> of Texmacs? The version I am using compiles perfectly on Ubuntu 8.04 and
> Debian 4.0.
>
> Regards,
>
> Paul.
>
> Andrea Gamba wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have been reading the posts about texmacs 1.0.7 in Ubuntu. I have tried
> > to install 1.0.7 on a cleanly installed Intrepid i386 box, but with lot
> > of problems.
> >
> > I have tried with three different methods:
> >
> > 1) downloading debs from Debian experimental. The debs get installed but
> > the program crashes.
> >
> > 2) the script kindly provided by Paul Zarucki. I get a compilation error
> > in the end.
> >
> > 3) transforming the rpm available on the texmacs site with alien. It
> > works (it's the way I am happily using texmacs 1.0.7) but texmacs mime
> > type is not recognized (no corresponding icons on the desktop, no opening
> > the program by clicking on the icons). Also, I had to fix by hands the
> > interfaces to several mathematical packages. These are minor problems but
> > annoying ones. I know how to solve them by hands (I posted about it), I
> > think therefore that it should not be difficult to solve them at the
> > level of the deb file (but I am not able to do it myself.)
> >
> > I hoped that there would be a deb package of 1.0.7 for Ubuntu 9.04, which
> > will be out in the end of April, but it seems that they are still at
> > 1.0.6. I noticed that 1.0.7 fixed a lot of bugs, so it's a pity it will
> > not available in the next Ubuntu realease. If there would be a deb
> > available, I would be happy to test it to check the working of interfaces
> > to several mathematical packages.
> >
> >
> > So my question is: will there be a deb package for Ubuntu 9.04 before its
> > release? or is it possible that there would be one available in
> > backports? or at least one for Ubuntu 9.10?
> >
> > Ubuntu is one of the more popular distributions around, in an ideal world
> > a deb to the last texmacs version should be available and working out of
> > the box together with good gnome integration (recognizing mime types) and
> > integration with mathematical packages (sessions working out of the box,
> > no sh-bash problems etc.)
> >
> > During the years I have been using texmacs more and more and I am more or
> > less able to fix problems. However new users may be scared away by a
> > buggy interface or difficulties in the installation. This hampers the
> > wider adoption of an outstanding program while a small effort would allow
> > to solve these comparatively minor problems.
> >
> > Andrea