Re: SimpleList test fails with beta 0.92

[muppet <scott asofyet org>]

On Tuesday, August 5, 2003, at 09:14  PM, Tudor Vinereanu wrote:

> Ross McFarland wrote:
> > my other question would be if the old stuff is still laying around on
> > the system. by old stuff i either mean older versions of gtk2-perl-xs 
> > or
> > gtk2-perl. there are no GType.pm, Widget.pm, Container.pm modules in
> > gtk2-perl-xs, i guess there must be in gtk2-perl

there's a separate pm for each object in the old stuff.  the _config.pm 
is the dead giveaway --- every pm routed through _config.pm when doing 
an inline build (and through _blib_config.pm when installed) so all the 
Inline magic and chicanery was confined to one spot.


> > why it would be looking
> > for it at that point i don't know. the two won't co-exist with out
> > taking special care.
>
> The answer is yes: I didn't uninstall the Inline stuff, and I didn't 
> uninstall
> the previous versions of gtk2-perl-xs... Is there a safe way to 
> uninstall them?
> And is it the right way, uninstalling them before a new version is out?

i, too, am confused as to how perl managed to find the Inline stuff 
during make test but not at any other point.  where are you installing 
gtk2-perl-xs?  in other words, are you using a PREFIX to Makefile.PL or 
are you just installing to the default places?

if you have no further need for the old stuff, then it's just taking up 
space (quite a bit -- over 200 small pm files), so i would say try 'rm 
-rf' on the Gtk2 directory in your perl libs.  also make sure you get 
rid of all occurrences of Gtk2.so under your perl libs to ensure there 
are no stale libs lying around.  then do a fresh install.


> I've been using Gtk2-Perl for a few months now, without any problems 
> due to Inline
> and XS coexisting, so I didn't think that was a problem.

i am amazed by this.  :-)


> If you point me out to an example I should run to verify SimpleList 
> works fine,
> I'll try it.

Gtk2/examples/simplelist.pl has some cool tricks.  if you have not yet 
run 'make install', you can do this:

    perl -I ./blib/lib -I ./blib/arch examples/simplelist.pl

from the Gtk2 directory.


> > we really need to put something in the README/INSTALL files about 
> > going
> > from the inline version to the new stuff. we also need to mention the
> > issues, whatever they may be, about installing it on mandrake systems.
> > i'd put it all in myself, but i don't know the exact issues and what 
> > to
> > say about them.

nor do i.  thierry, ggc, you guys still listening?


> On my Solaris machine, I use to have problems with CodeGen.pm (grep 
> failed, only
> a matter of quotes), but that was fixed by muppet a few releses ago 
> (thanks!).

you should've mentioned, i would've fixed it sooner!