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[bug-unrtf] unrtf-0.21.0 build issues
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Nelson H. F. Beebe |
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[bug-unrtf] unrtf-0.21.0 build issues |
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Tue, 27 Jan 2009 15:45:53 -0700 (MST) |
I attempted builds of unrtf-0.21.0 in 49 environments on about 25
flavors of Unix in my test lab, and ALL got universal failure.
With some experimentation, I found two root causes:
(1) The top-level Makefile does not have LIBS set: it needs to
include -liconv.
When I restarted the make with "make LIBS=-liconv", I got
a successful link on one platform (presumably the others
would work too after a similar step).
(2) Once unrtf is built, "make check" fails like this:
Making check in tests
../src/unrtf ./Greek1.rtf > Greek1.rtf.html
/usr/local/lib/unrtf/outputs/html: No such file or directory
no config directories
FAILURE!
...
many more such
I then did a "make install", and reran the "make check". It then
succeeded.
It is IMPERATIVE that a validation suite be runnable without
installing the software; otherwise, there is serious risk of (a)
installing something that doesn't work and (b) wiping out a
previously-working installation (in this case, of unrtf-0.20.5).
If you provide me a URL to grab an updated version of unrtf with
patches to fix these two problems, I'll be happy to give it a pretest
in my lab before it is announced further. That way, installers should
have a better success rate.
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