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Re: [TeXmacs] Some notes on installing TeXmacs 1.0.20 on Ubuntu 13.10,


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  • From: Romain Lebreton <address@hidden>
  • To: address@hidden
  • Subject: Re: [TeXmacs] Some notes on installing TeXmacs 1.0.20 on Ubuntu 13.10,
  • Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2013 15:25:32 -0500
I am glad that you shared your experience since I wanted to do that for quite some time.
Here is my experience. On a basic Ubuntu 13.04, the only missing packages to have a success with the configure script of TeXmacs were
guile-1.8-dev
g++
qt4-default

However, at the linking stage at the end of the compilation, you get a lot of linking errors
Objects/glue.o: In function `tmg_trace_distance(scm_unused_struct*, scm_unused_struct*, scm_unused_struct*)':
glue.cpp:(.text+0x87f7): undefined reference to `trace_distance(string, string, double)'
Objects/glue.o: In function `tmg_characteristic_distance(scm_unused_struct*, scm_unused_struct*)':
glue.cpp:(.text+0x35416): undefined reference to `characteristic_distance(array<string>, array<string>)'
Objects/smart_font.o: In function `get_ex(string, string, string, string, int) [clone .constprop.46]':
smart_font.cpp:(.text+0x9c1): undefined reference to `find_attribute_value(array<string>, string)'
Objects/font_guess.o: In function `guessed_features(string, string)':
font_guess.cpp:(.text+0x7cf): undefined reference to `find_attribute_value(array<string>, string)'
font_guess.cpp:(.text+0x838): undefined reference to `find_attribute_value(array<string>, string)'
font_guess.cpp:(.text+0x8aa): undefined reference to `find_attribute_value(array<string>, string)'
font_guess.cpp:(.text+0x91c): undefined reference to `find_attribute_value(array<string>, string)'
Objects/font_guess.o:font_guess.cpp:(.text+0x98e): more undefined references to `find_attribute_value(array<string>, string)' follow
Objects/font_guess.o: In function `guessed_distance(string, string, string, string)':
font_guess.cpp:(.text+0x3db5): undefined reference to `characteristic_distance(array<string>, array<string>)'
Objects/font_guess.o: In function `guessed_distance(string, string, string, string) [clone .constprop.14]':
font_guess.cpp:(.text+0x4d57): undefined reference to `characteristic_distance(array<string>, array<string>)'

This is indeed solved by installing the missing dependencies of the texmacs package (texlive-base, texlive-extra-utils, texlive-font-utils, texlive-math-extra were enough for me), and doing
make clean
./configure
make

In order to isolate which package was really needed, I removed all 4 packages but the compilation still work. So I guess it must be a dependency of these 4 packages.

My conclusion is that there is a required package that is not detected by the configure script and I don't know exactly what it is. Can somebody tell me to which library the functions tmg_trace_distance, tmg_characteristic_distance, ... are related to?

Thanks,

Romain


Le 01/11/2013 23:56, Adrian S. a écrit :
I just wanted to share my experiences compiling TeXmacs in Ubuntu 13.10.

For installation in Ubuntu 13.10, I was not sure what to install, so I
followed the dependencies in the package texmacs-src (which is for
1.0.18), which are:

autotools-dev
cdbs (>=.4)
debhelper (>=.0)
ghostscript
guile-1.8-dev
imagemagick
ispell
libfreetype6-dev
libimlib2-dev
libjpeg-progs
libltdl-dev
libqt4-dev
librsvg2-bin
libtiff-tools
libx11-dev
libxt-dev
netpbm
quilt
r-base-core (>=.0)
x11proto-core-dev
xfig

From these, I think r-base-core and xfig are not really needed. The
packages listed ones allow it to compile, however:

The configure script found guile2, and tried to compile against it.
Aparently TeXmacs does not work with guile2, and needs guile1.8...
After putting guile1.8 and guile1.8-dev, all compiled nicely.

Then the newer version of ubuntu uses Maxima 5.30, which is
incompatible with TeXmacs. Previous versions of Maxima work just
fine.

A long time ago, I had asked a problem regarding the menu created when
one starts a Maxima session. What is supposed to happen is that when
one starts a Maxima session, one should see a new entry en the top
menu saying "Maxima" and inside of which there are several options
about operations that can be performed inside the session. Compiling
the X version of texmacs (with the --disable-qt option) works just
fine. However, the compiled Qt version of texmacs does not create the
new menu. At first I thought that this was TeXmacs fault, but then I
notice that the binary qt version in Windows does create the menu.
After a bit of digging, I realized that this is a Unity problem in
Ubuntu. The problem is solved by removing the package
"indicator-appmenu" in Ubuntu.

This removes the Apple-like "global menu", which is common for all
applications. This method is probably not the best way to do it,
because if affects all applications; but is the only workaround that I
have found (Other tricks like using "UBUNTU_MENUPROXY=texmacs", or
using "APPMENU_DISPLAY_BOTH=texmacs" did not work)

The package sage still uses a modified version of the Python plugin
that has several problems, but is now able to plot graphics, which was
missing for a while.

The new version of sage also shows some annoying symbols due to using
unicode , but it is a somewhat minor, though annoying, problem. I will
take a look to see if there is an easy fix to at least that. I
suggested a version of the sage plugin, but was not included.

I must say that the SVN version is impressive, and the improvements
done for the beamer style, and for the exportation of documents with
the beamer style to PDF are extraordinary.

I am very happy with TeXmacs. I appreciate all the terrific work that
is being done.

I wonder if there is some work in the Mathemagix plugin, to see a bit
what we should aim to regarding writing plugins.

Hope this notes are useful to someone else.

Peace.
-Adrián.


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