Is It OK to Install Non-Gentoo Programs?

carney1979

I have another hobby that compliments my computer hobby. It's ham radio.

There are some good ham radio programs for the ham digital modes (keyboard to keyboard communications).

One that I like is KPsk for KDE (KDE 3.2 and sound are already installed here).

Unfortunately, there don't seem to be too many (if any) ham radio apps in the portage tree.

My question is can I just download the tarball and make it and install it, or is there some better way to integrate it onto my system?

David

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carney1979 · Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2004 7:30 pm Post subject: How??

ha5nyz · n00b Joined: 27 Nov 2003 Posts: 7

I have written the ebuild. I hope it will be included to the portage soon.

Here is the url: https://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=26947&action=view

73! DX!
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carney1979 · Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2004 8:30 pm Post subject: Thanks!

Thanks, Zoltan.

Hope to work you one day!

73's de David N1ZHE

carney1979 · Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2004 2:18 pm Post subject: Berkeley DB Libs?

I'm getting an error during configure.

configure: error: Cannot find the Berkeley DB libs

!!! ERROR: x11-misc/kpsk-1.0.1 failed.
!!! Function econf, Line 365, Exitcode 1
!!! econf failed

--------------------------- ACCESS VIOLATION SUMMARY ---------------------------
LOG FILE = "/tmp/sandbox-x11-misc_-_kpsk-1.0.1-28623.log"

open_wr: /usr/qt/3/etc/settings/.qtrc.lock
open_wr: /usr/qt/3/etc/settings/.qtrc.lock
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
bash-2.05b#

I emerged BerkeleyDB but I still get the same error.

Help!

David

giddyup · n00b Joined: 05 Oct 2002 Posts: 17

do you have 'sandbox' in your FEATURES (in /etc/make.conf)? if so, you might want to try commenting 'sandbox' out and try the emerge again.

carney1979 · Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2004 5:45 pm Post subject: Sandbox

...Sandbox has always been commented out.

David

EliasP · Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2004 1:18 pm Post subject:

Have a look at this thread... hope it solves your problems:

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=18733&highlight=

Greetings

Elias P.

ha5nyz · n00b Joined: 27 Nov 2003 Posts: 7

Hi david!

What db version do you have?

regards
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gorshing · n00b Joined: 18 Nov 2002 Posts: 39 Location: Oklahoma, US

carney1979, an ebuild howto ... http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-howto.xml

Just FYI

Carlo · Developer Joined: 12 Aug 2002 Posts: 3356

The mentioned ebuild should inherit from kde.eclass to circumvent sandbox problems. The ebuild header is invalid too.

Add a inherit kde line, remove the src_-functions (and the implicit added qt/kdelibs dependencies) and the ebuild should compile.

carney1979 · Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2004 3:17 am Post subject: DB Version

To ha5nyz: DB version .25

To Carlo: I'm a complete ebuild newb. Could you be a bit more specific?

Thanks to all.

David

Carlo · Developer Joined: 12 Aug 2002 Posts: 3356

carney1979 · Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2004 10:38 am Post subject:

ha5nyz: db version is: sys-libs/db-4.1.25_p1-r3 (I had the wrong db in my earlier post)

Tried your mods, Carlo. Sorry to say it didn't work. I confirmed that I have all the dependencies listed in the ebuild. Dependency versions are all better than required.

David

Carlo · Developer Joined: 12 Aug 2002 Posts: 3356

carney1979 · Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2004 5:27 pm Post subject: Sandbox Errors

Yes, I'm still getting sandbox errors. Sandbox is "on" in my /etc/make.conf.

Here's the error from /tmp:

Carlo · Developer Joined: 12 Aug 2002 Posts: 3356

1. The db problem: The documentation states the software works with db-3.1 up to 4. Maybe it does not work with 4.1. So I would advise you to change the dependency to <sys-libs/db-4.1.

2. The sandbox problem: I don't know what you did to emerge your local ebuild. If you haven't already, please read the available documentation and then do the following: Put my proposed ebuild in your portage overlay directory, change the dependencies as described above, delete all data in /var/tmp/portage, switch to ebuild's directory and then use the ebuild command to merge the ebuild.

Carlo
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carney1979 · Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2004 5:28 pm Post subject: Sourceforge

I read on KPSK's Sourceforge website that it won't compile with the 4.1.25 db version that I have.

I will try upgrading/downgrading the db and try again.

It shouldn't be this hard....

David

Carlo · Developer Joined: 12 Aug 2002 Posts: 3356

You don't need to downgrade. The db ebuilds are slotted.

Carlo
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carney1979 · Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2004 2:49 pm Post subject: Still a Newb

Carlo,

I'm still a Gentoo Newb and I don't understand what "slotted" means.

I installed a lesser version of DB. When I did this, it did not remove the 4.1.25 version.

I tried emerging KPSK again, but got the same DB error. So I removed the DB-4.1.25. KPSK compiled, but during the install, it failed again, something about a .qtrc.lock.

Here's the last few lines with the error:

REENTRANT -Wnon-virtual-dtor -Wno-long-long -Wundef -Wall -pedantic -W -Wpointer-arith -Wmissing-prototypes -Wwrite-strings -ansi -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 -D_BSD_SOURCE -Wcast-align -Wconversion -O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -O2 -fno-exceptions -fno-check-new -c -o myqlineedit.moc.o `test -f myqlineedit.moc.cpp || echo './'`myqlineedit.moc.cpp
/bin/sh ../libtool --silent --mode=link --tag=CXX g++ -Wnon-virtual-dtor -Wno-long-long -Wundef -Wall -pedantic -W -Wpointer-arith -Wmissing-prototypes -Wwrite-strings -ansi -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 -D_BSD_SOURCE -Wcast-align -Wconversion -O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -O2 -fno-exceptions -fno-check-new -o kpsk -L/usr/X11R6/lib -L/usr/qt/3/lib -L/usr/kde/3.2/lib -R /usr/kde/3.2/lib -R /usr/qt/3/lib -R /usr/X11R6/lib kpskmeter.o kpsktip.o autocallchexdlg.o dcddlg.o waterfall.o qsoinfo.o personalsdlg.o mystatusbar.o myqlistviewitem.o myqlineedit.o mainview.o logsearch.o logedit.o logcore.o logbook.o gttextwidget.o fixtextdlg.o fixtext.o devicesdlg.o banddlg.o auxwindow.o autocqdlg.o appearencedlg.o kpsk.o main.o kpskmeter.moc.o autocqdlg.moc.o fixtextdlg.moc.o waterfall.moc.o qsoinfo.moc.o banddlg.moc.o devicesdlg.moc.o mystatusbar.moc.o appearencedlg.moc.o logsearch.moc.o auxwindow.moc.o autocallchexdlg.moc.o personalsdlg.moc.o mainview.moc.o gttextwidget.moc.o kpsk.moc.o fixtext.moc.o logbook.moc.o dcddlg.moc.o logedit.moc.o myqlineedit.moc.o ./server/libserver.a ./modes/libmodes.a -lm -lkio -lkdeui -lkdecore -lqt-mt -lpng -lz -lm -lXext -lX11 -lSM -lICE -lpthread -ldb-4.0 -lpthread
make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/kpsk-1.0.1/work/kpsk-1.0.1/kpsk'
make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/kpsk-1.0.1/work/kpsk-1.0.1/kpsk'
Making all in po
make[2]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/kpsk-1.0.1/work/kpsk-1.0.1/po'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/kpsk-1.0.1/work/kpsk-1.0.1/po'
Making all in doc
make[2]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/kpsk-1.0.1/work/kpsk-1.0.1/doc'
Making all in en
make[3]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/kpsk-1.0.1/work/kpsk-1.0.1/doc/en'
/usr/kde/3.2/bin/meinproc --check --cache index.cache.bz2 ./index.docbook
make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/kpsk-1.0.1/work/kpsk-1.0.1/doc/en'
make[3]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/kpsk-1.0.1/work/kpsk-1.0.1/doc'
make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all-am'.
make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/kpsk-1.0.1/work/kpsk-1.0.1/doc'
make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/kpsk-1.0.1/work/kpsk-1.0.1/doc'
make[2]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/kpsk-1.0.1/work/kpsk-1.0.1'
make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/kpsk-1.0.1/work/kpsk-1.0.1'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/kpsk-1.0.1/work/kpsk-1.0.1'
--------------------------- ACCESS VIOLATION SUMMARY ---------------------------
LOG FILE = "/tmp/sandbox-media-radio_-_kpsk-1.0.1-30441.log"

open_wr: /usr/qt/3/etc/settings/.qtrc.lock
open_wr: /usr/qt/3/etc/settings/.qtrc.lock
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n1zhe david #

I went to the work directory. Everything seemed to be there, so I tried a 'make install'. Everything seems to work as KPSK normally does, but Portage doesn't know it's there. I would like to install it normally with emerge. :wink:

For this install attempt, everything was normal, ie, no modifications to the ebuild, etc. All I did was replace db-4.1.25_p1-r3 with version db-4.0.14-r2.

db-4.1.25_p1-r3 was reinstalled with the next 'emerge sync' and 'emerge -uUvd world'. KPSK continued to function.

David

Carlo · Developer Joined: 12 Aug 2002 Posts: 3356

carney1979 · Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2004 5:10 pm Post subject: Getting Closer....

I tried adding 'inherit kde' in the appropriate place in the original ebuild; still didn't work.

So I tried your ebuild:

# Copyright 1999-2004 Gentoo Technologies, Inc.
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
# $Header: $

IUSE=""

inherit kde

DESCRIPTION="KPSK is a PSK31 digital radio communications application for use by licensed amateur radio operators"
HOMEPAGE="http://kpsk.sourceforge.net/"
SRC_URI="mirror://sourceforge/kpsk/${P}.tar.gz"
LICENSE="GPL-2"
SLOT="0"
KEYWORDS="~x86"
RESTRICT="nomirror"

DEPEND=">=sys-libs/db-3.1
sys-libs/zlib
media-libs/libpng"

...and it got a lot closer.

It stopped with this error:

make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/kpsk-1.0.1/work/kpsk-1.0.1/kpsk/modes'
make[2]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/kpsk-1.0.1/work/kpsk-1.0.1/kpsk'
make[3]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/kpsk-1.0.1/work/kpsk-1.0.1/kpsk'
/bin/sh ../admin/mkinstalldirs /var/tmp/portage/kpsk-1.0.1/image//bin
mkdir -p -- /var/tmp/portage/kpsk-1.0.1/image//bin
/bin/sh ../libtool --silent --mode=install /bin/install -c -p kpsk /var/tmp/portage/kpsk-1.0.1/image//bin/kpsk
/bin/sh ../admin/mkinstalldirs /share/applnk/Applications/HamRadio/
mkdir -p -- /share/applnk/Applications/HamRadio/
ACCESS DENIED mkdir: /share
mkdir: cannot create directory `/share': Permission denied
make[3]: *** [install-data-local] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/kpsk-1.0.1/work/kpsk-1.0.1/kpsk'
make[2]: *** [install-am] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/kpsk-1.0.1/work/kpsk-1.0.1/kpsk'
make[1]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/kpsk-1.0.1/work/kpsk-1.0.1/kpsk'
make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1

!!! ERROR: media-radio/kpsk-1.0.1 failed.
!!! Function kde_src_install, Line 153, Exitcode 2
!!! died running make install, kde_src_install:make

--------------------------- ACCESS VIOLATION SUMMARY ---------------------------
LOG FILE = "/tmp/sandbox-media-radio_-_kpsk-1.0.1-31178.log"

mkdir: /share
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n1zhe db #

"/tmp/sandbox-media-radio_-_kpsk-1.0.1-31178.log" contains:

mkdir: /share

...oh, and I did mean 'emerge -uUDv world'. Typo on my part.

David

Carlo · Developer Joined: 12 Aug 2002 Posts: 3356

O.k. the stuff compiles. I forgot adding "need-kde 3" to the ebuild sample. Without this line the kde.eclass won't add the /usr prefix, so the ebuild would merge to /bin, /share and so on.

The install problem needs a patch or a sed line. Have a look at the Makefile, where it wants to create the directory and add the destination variable before the target directory (mostly $DESTDIR or something like this). The ebuild has to be modified in the following way:

Nidel · Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2004 11:03 am Post subject: Re: Getting Closer....