How to make FET compile on gcc-4.2.4?

[Anand]

Hello,

I am trying to create an installable pre-compiled package of the latest version of FET on Zenwalk-5.4BETA1 which has GCC-4.2.4.

What patches should I apply to the sources to make FET compile on GCC-4.2.4?

Thanks for your help,

Anand

[Liviu Lalescu]

I added a note in the README, because of your e-mail.

I used to have gcc 4.2.3 and it crashed when compiling the file rules.cpp. The gcc guys may have fixed this bug in 4.2.4, because I reported it. If FET compiles until the end, then everything is OK and you can use the resulted executable.

There is no patch to apply. If you get a crash, you might want to split the file rules.cpp (src/engine/) in 2 or more files and add these files in src/interface/interface.pro. I hope you won't get a crash.

Later edit: I am curious, what is Zenwalk-5.4BETA1?

[Anand]

Hi Liviu,

That was a very quick reply. Thank you so much.

Zenwalk is a GNU/Linux distribution that is a derivative of Slackware GNU/Linux.

I will try compiling FET on Zenwalk-5.4 now.

Last time when I tried compiling, everything went properly until rules.cpp. When rules.cpp started compiling, it was taking a very long time. But it did not crash. I waited for nearly 45 minutes and then I pressed Ctrl+c to interrupt the compilation process.

Does rules.cpp take a very long time to compile? How long should I wait before interrupting the compilation process?

Regards,

Anand

[Liviu Lalescu]

Slackware is an old friend of mine :-) but I gave it up for the easiness of Kubuntu and after that openSUSE.

On my powerful computer it takes I think at most 3 minutes for rules.cpp. But under gcc 4.2.3 it crashed, it did not freeze.

Please try to split the file rules.cpp into 2 or more parts. It should work.

[Anand]

It worked! Now it is running on Zenwalk-5.4. I did not apply any patches.

Now, I want to create a .tgz package. As per standards followed in Slackware and Zenwalk, I need to put the files in the directories as shown below:

/usr/bin should contain the binary fet.

/usr/doc/fet-5.7.7 should contain the document files. I think I can also keep the directory sample_inputs here.

Where to keep the directory translations?

Anand

[Liviu Lalescu]

Quote from the README:

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FET will search for translations (fet_xx.qm files) in the following order: directory /usr/share/fet/translations (under Unix like or Mac), then  directory "translations" in the directory where fet executable is, then directly in the directory where the fet executable is.
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So, you can put them in /usr/share/fet/translations or other 2 variants. I think the first variant is used in other GNU/Linux-s.

PS: You only need the *.qm files, but you can leave also the text files *.ts

[Anand]

I have successfully created FET-5.7.7 package for Zenwalk-5.4Beta1.

Anand

[Liviu Lalescu]

That is good news :-)

I hope you will stay tuned for the new 5.8.0, in about 1 week from now. You could subscribe to the mailing list, to the forum announcements or to the freshmeat (http://freshmeat.net/projects/fet/) or to sourceforge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/fet-timetabling/) to see when I release a new version. Freshmeat and sourceforge are better, because you only get the announcements for new versions.

I have to admit I am releasing sometimes very often, maybe even at 3-7 days, I am a bit hasty. I hope 5.8.0 will stay longer.

Maybe you could give us the link to the Zenwalk FET section. Does it allow user rating?

[Anand]

Hi,

Here is my FET-5.7.7 package for Zenwalk-5.4Beta1:

http://zenwalk.pinguix.com/user-accounts/rsamurti/fet/fet-5.7.7-i486-54.1.tgz

Hope this will be useful for all users of Zenwalk.

Anand