[epiar-devel] epiar.net Contact Form Submission

[Christopher Thielen]

I just realized Dave might not want these e-mails going to the developer
list. I'll run it by him just to make sure.

I've been CC'ing these e-mails just to let everybody know about the
issue.

I've got Ubuntu 10.10 in a VM, which I hope to use to debug Dave's issue
and generate Debian/Ubuntu packages.

I'll have to work out the issue with Dave, but at least on my side,
Epiar does run just fine in Debian/Ubuntu.

On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 05:36:33PM -0700, Christopher Thielen wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 04:27:27PM -0700, TWP Marketing wrote:
> > Ok, I got a make to complete, but the file "epiar" (6.3 MB) does not run on my system, either in Konsole or from Dolphin as an executable.
> >  Progress is being made, thanks, but I have to leave, back tomorrow about 9am my time.
> > Dave
> 
> No worries Dave, I appreciate the feedback.
> 
> When you next have the time and inclination, please let me know how
> Epiar is failing, e.g. what happens when you actually type "./epiar" in
> Konsole while in the Epiar root directory? By default, Epiar should be
> logging a number of messages to the terminal that should help us. If it
> does output a number of messages but crash, you can use:
> 
> ./epiar >& crash.log
> 
> to capture them all to the file "crash.log" which you can attach in an
> e-mail to me.
> 
> Thanks again,
> Chris
> 
> > ________________________________
> > From: Christopher Thielen <chris at epiar.net>
> > To: TWP Marketing <markettwp at yahoo.com>
> > Sent: Sunday, June 19, 2011 3:52 PM
> > Subject: Re: epiar.net Contact Form Submission
> > 
> > I forgot to add that two lines below the line you're to comment out, you
> > need to change the LIBS line to:
> > 
> > LIBS="$LIBS -lSDL_mixer"
> > 
> > On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 01:37:44PM -0700, TWP Marketing wrote:
> > > OK, attached is the config.log file from today. (18.3kB)
> > > 
> > > I note the missing file "confdefs.h" in the log report.  It really is not there, I searched.  It also is not in the file epiar-0.4.2tar.bz2 pulled from your site.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > ________________________________
> > > From: Christopher Thielen <chris at epiar.net>
> > > To: TWP Marketing <markettwp at yahoo.com>
> > > Sent: Sunday, June 19, 2011 1:11 PM
> > > Subject: Re: epiar.net Contact Form Submission
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Ah, my mistake. I'll still be making .deb files but please send me the config.log file it generates.
> > > 
> > > Sent from my iPhone
> > > 
> > > On Jun 19, 2011, at 12:28 PM, TWP Marketing <markettwp at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Ok, I checked for libsdl-dev (libsdl1.2-dev) and it is installed.
> > > >
> > > >Yes, I'd be happy to test the deb package when you get it ready.  I'm online most days, USA west coast time (PST).
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >  In your previous reply, you gave me: "sdl-version --version" and I think you meant "sdl-config --version".  This latter command works and returns "1.2.14" which is correct.  HOWEVER, when I run the autogen/cofigure/make commands, I still get this:
> > > >...
> > > >checking for sdl-config... /usr/bin/sdl-config
> > > >checking for SDL - version >= 1.2.14... no
> > > >*** Could not run SDL test program, checking why...
> > > >*** The test program failed to compile or link. See the file config.log for the
> > > >*** exact
> > >  error that occured. This usually means SDL was incorrectly installed
> > > >*** or that you have moved SDL since it was installed. In the latter case, you
> > > >*** may want to edit the sdl-config script: /usr/bin/sdl-config
> > > >configure: error: *** SDL version 1.2.14 not found!
> > > >...
> > > >Perhaps the autogen or configure script is wrong?
> > > >
> > > >Dave
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >-------------------------------- ----------------------------------------
> > > >I had originally written the instructions with Ubuntu 10.04.
> > > >
> > > >Since you're compiling Epiar, you need to make sure the *-dev packages
> > > >are installed, e.g. not just 'libsdl' but 'libsdl-dev' as well. That
> > > >-dev package is going to have sdl-config, but the regular libsdl
> > > >package, needed for merely running
> > >  programs, won't include it. Please
> > > >make sure you have both libsdl and libsdl-dev. Epiar's configure script
> > > >will fail until sdl-config is present.
> > > >
> > > >Aside from that, I have no idea what could be wrong, but ...
> > > >
> > > >I need to build binary images for the Epiar 0.5.0 release so I'll
> > > >install Ubuntu 10.10 today and double-check the instructions. I can also
> > > >build the .deb package and have you test it if you'd like.
> > > >
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