Missing Library File After GCompris Compilation

[Aleksey Lim]

On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 03:43:42AM +0000, Aleksey Lim wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 03:41:27AM +0000, Aleksey Lim wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 10:38:48PM +0100, Bruno Coudoin wrote:
> > > 
> > > Ok, this process has been deprecated by work done by Aleksey (in copy)
> > > to use 0install. My bundleit.sh will be removed once the 0install
> > > process for GCompris is in place. For the mean time, you can use it  but
> > > the source operating system and the target one must be as close as
> > > possible to avoid the missing library situation which you faced.
> > > 
> > > Bruno.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Le mercredi 10 mars 2010 à 00:52 +0200, Tamer Alkhouli a écrit :
> > > > I am bundling the activity using the provided bundleit.sh script,
> > > > which you can find here:
> > > > http://git.gnome.org/browse/gcompris/tree/src?h=gcomprixo
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > I am using Ubuntu, are you suggesting that I should use aptitude to
> > > > generate the XO file? If yes, how can that be done?
> > > > 
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 10:54 PM, Bruno Coudoin <bruno.coudoin at free.fr>
> > > > wrote:
> > > >         Le dimanche 07 mars 2010 à 03:51 +0200, Tamer Alkhouli a
> > > >         écrit :
> > > >         
> > > >         > Hello all,
> > > >         >
> > > >         >
> > > >         > I was trying to modify one of the GCompris activities
> > > >         > (memory-activity), and after bundling the compiled code and
> > > >         trying to
> > > >         > install it using the sugar-install-bundle command on the XO,
> > > >         I got an
> > > >         >  error message telling me that libxcb-render-util.so.0 was
> > > >         missing.
> > > >         > When I copied that file to /usr/lib/ everything worked just
> > > >         fine. Any
> > > >         > idea why this problem showed in the first place? And how to
> > > >         fix it
> > > >         > permanently? Note that the non-modified GCompris activity
> > > >         doesn't need
> > > >         > that  file.
> > 
> > It depends on your intention about sharing your activity,
> > 
> > * for all users (not only sugar)
> > * for all sugar users (not only XO)
> > * or just for XO (particular version, 1 xor 1.5) users
> > 
> > 0install stuff, I'm going to propose for inclusion to main branch, is
> > intended to cover all these situations (with resolving not GC issues
> > like (not)existing of particular version of libxml/librsvg), thus it
> > could be overkill if you want just to run activity on XO-1. In that
> > case you can follow simpler scheme:
> > 
> > * configure GC with --prefix=/
> 
> you can also add --disable-sqlite --disable-gnet arguments if targeted
> environment won't have such libs

heh, forgot to mention, on XO-1 you need 
librsvg >= 2.26, libxml2 >= 2.7.3

> > * make GC (you need only your activity and a couple of libs but just in case)
> > * go to activity directory you want to bundle
> > * run `make DESTDIR=<path> install-activity`
> > * you will get <path>/activities/<activity> directory with all you need
> > * follow regular(not related to GC) .xo bundle procedures to make .xo
> >   e.g. you can use
> >   http://git.gnome.org/browse/gcompris/tree/src/gcompris-activity?h=gcomprixo
> >   as startup script
> > 
> > > >         Well each library on which we depend brings its own dependency
> > > >         to us.
> > > >         
> > > >         It means that if you compile on a system were X depends on the
> > > >         library
> > > >         libxcb-render then our gcompris binary will require it. But if
> > > >         this
> > > >         library is not present on a given system then GCompris won't
> > > >         start at
> > > >         all because GNU/Linux expect all dynamic libraries required by
> > > >         a binary
> > > >         to be present.
> > > >         
> > > >         To avoid this situation, all GNU/Linux distribution have a
> > > >         packaging
> > > >         system in place.
> > > >         
> > > >         --
> > > >         Bruno Coudoin
> > > >         http://gcompris.net  Free educational software for kids
> > > >         http://toulibre.org  Logiciel Libre à Toulouse
> > > >         http://april.org     Promouvoir et défendre le Logiciel Libre
> > > >         
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > -- 
> > > > Tamer Alkhouli
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > -- 
> > > Bruno Coudoin
> > > http://gcompris.net  Free educational software for kids
> > > http://toulibre.org  Logiciel Libre à Toulouse
> > > http://april.org     Promouvoir et défendre le Logiciel Libre
> > > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > Aleksey
> 
> -- 
> Aleksey

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Aleksey