[Scilab-Dev] Module installation (was: Building scilab-master-1286272063 on Fedora 13)

[Calixte Denizet]

Le dimanche 17 octobre 2010 à 22:12 -0700, Dean S. Messing a écrit :
> On Thu, 14 Oct 2010 23:23:22 +0200, Calixte Denizet wrote:
> >  Le jeudi 14 octobre 2010 à 14:20 -0700, Dean S. Messing a écrit
> > > I get errors in the Scilab Console like this:
> > > 
> > > Startup execution:
> > >   loading initial environment
> > > load('SCI/modules/elementary_functions/macros/lib');
> > >                                                     !--error 241 
> > > File "/usr/local/share/scilab//modules/elementary_functions/macros/lib" does not exist.
> > > at line      12 of exec file called by :    
> > >   exec("SCI/modules/"+modules(i)+"/etc/"+modules(i)+".start",-1);
> > > at line      96 of exec file called by :    
> > > exec('SCI/etc/scilab.start',-1);;
> > >  
> > > 
> > > The problem is that none of the .bin files or "lib" or "names" from the
> > > modules/*/macros subdirectories got installed in
> > > /usr/local/share/scilab/modules/*/macros
> <snip>
> >
> > Try 'make macros' in your SCI dir.
> 
> Thanks very much Calixte.
> 

Hello Dean

> This is an embarrassing question: What is my SCI dir?  Under scilab-4.x
> there was a scilab-4.x directory under /usr/local/lib which contained
> everything that was the result of the build.
> 

Your SCI dir is /usr/local/src/scilab-master-1286272063/

Calixte

> But under 5.3.0 things are spread out. Anyway, modules are in
> /usr/local/share/scilab/modules, but there's no Makefile in there.
> 
> So in the source (build) directory,
> /usr/local/src/scilab-master-1286272063/modules, I did `make install'
> and the .bin, lib, and, names file got installed in
> /usr/local/share/scilab/modules.
> 
> They had already been built during the build, but for some reason they
> didn't get installed when I did `make install' in
> /usr/local/src/scilab-master-1286272063
> 
> On another machine on which I did _exactly_ the name build procedure,
> all the module binaries got installed correctly.  Is this is a bug?
> 
> Dean
>