[ic] MORE Install HELP

Mon Dec 31 13:28:00 2001

Message: 1
From: "Monte" <monte@techark.com>
To: <interchange-users@interchange.redhat.com>
Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2001 11:18:16 -0600
Subject: [ic] Install HELP!!!!!
Reply-To: interchange-users@interchange.redhat.com

Yes I have it in it's own directory if you look you can see I did a ls
command that listed all the dirs and then a cd to interchange_4.8.3 then ran
./configure

Something has to be screwy in the Makefile.PL I have looked it over and see
where it is getting caught in the loop at, but I do not know perl well
enough to fix it.

Is there a version of 4.8.2 I can download somewhere maybe this is a bug in
4.8.3.
Or is there a way to configure this by hand? If so where could I find the
instructions at?

Sorry Rene here is more info.

Red Hat Linux release 7.1 (Seawolf)
Kernel 2.2.19-6.2.1ensim-3.0.0-49 on an i686
/home/monte
bash-2.04$ cd /home/monte
bash-2.04$ ls
_uid               interchange-4.8.3.tar.gz  mainwebsite_html
interchange-4.8.3  mainwebsite_cgi
as you can see I have installed it in my dir as you suggested.
I run ./configure then here is what I get

 Interchange was originally based on Vend 0.2 and 0.3
 Copyright 1995, 1996 Andrew M. Wilcox <awilcox@maine.com>

 Distributed under the GNU General Public License.
 See the file LICENSE for license information.

Found Perl 5.6.0 as /usr/bin/perl

If you get a CPAN error, rerun the configuration and it should go away.

Checking if your kit is complete...
Looks good

 Interchange V4.8.3

 Interchange is free under the terms of the GNU General Public License.

Where is your Interchange to be installed? /home/monte/interchange
Can't install in software source directory!
Where is your Interchange to be installed?

I then get caught into this loop and not matter what path I seem to give it
I get this error message.

I have also tried to install on the root and get this same error. I have a
private server that I lease and this is the main account I want to install
it to on this server.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks Monte
http://techarkservices.net

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Message: 21
From: "Rene Hertell" <interchange@hertell.com>
To: <interchange-users@interchange.redhat.com>
Subject: RE: [ic] Install HELP path to install to........
Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2001 02:35:06 +0200
Reply-To: interchange-users@interchange.redhat.com

> /home/monte

Have you extracted the IC tarball into its own directory? (e.g.
/home/monte/interchange-4.8.3 ?) I suggest that you should move all
interchange to that directory, and run the configure from there.

René

I have tried that and still the same thing. There has to be something else I
am missing, too many people have this thing up and running for me NOT to be
able to install it due to a bug.

I have tried renaming the dir the files are in, I have tried to rename the
dir I want to install it in. I have tried calling the actual path etc
nothing I do seems to work around this problem.

Any more suggestions? I hate to chunk the package at this point and give up.

How much would an hours worth of phone support cost me? Anybody game to take
this on and help me get this thing installed?
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Message: 2
Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2001 12:07:16 -0600
From: Jason Kohles <jkohles@redhat.com>
To: interchange-users@interchange.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [ic] Install HELP!!!!!
Reply-To: interchange-users@interchange.redhat.com

On Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 11:18:16AM -0600, Monte wrote:
> Yes I have it in it's own directory if you look you can see I did a ls
> command that listed all the dirs and then a cd to interchange_4.8.3 then
ran
> ./configure
>
> Something has to be screwy in the Makefile.PL I have looked it over and
see
> where it is getting caught in the loop at, but I do not know perl well
> enough to fix it.
>
It appears you have found a bug.  In looking at the code it will fail if the
install directory matches the source directory, but doesn't anchor the
regexp
at the end, so it thinks /home/monte/interchange is the same as
/home/monte/interchange-4.8.3.  I'll check in a fix for this, but in the
meantime you can work around it easily enough by renaming the source
directory
to something that does not start with 'interchange', such as ic-4.8.3...

> Is there a version of 4.8.2 I can download somewhere maybe this is a bug
in
> 4.8.3.
> Or is there a way to configure this by hand? If so where could I find the
> instructions at?
>
Going to 4.8.2 won't help, as this bug seems to have existed since at least
4.6...

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Jason Kohles                                 jkohles@redhat.com
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