[AWS] AWS fails to install on Debian 6.0

[Brett]

22 Dec 2011
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I just visited the AWS lists, and noted that my reply to the Pascal's
entry of 10 Dec 2011 was not shown. It is listed in my eMail sent
folder, so here it is again !
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10 Dec 2011

To save time reading this -- I dropped Adacore/AWS and reinstalled 
the standard Debian ( outdated) versions of the repository.

A detailed description is below :-)

On Sat, 10 Dec 2011 10:06:53 +0100
Pascal Obry <pascal at obry.net> wrote:

> Le 10/12/2011 02:35, Brett a écrit :
> > I don't know ! I just installed Ada & AWS packages and assumed
> > "they'd" know what tools to use.
> >>
> >>> root at debian:/home/brett/Gnat2011/AWS/aws-gpl-2.10.0-src# make
> >>> build tools.gpr:87:58: literal string expected
> >>> tools.gpr:88:11: undefined attribute "executable"
> >>> tools.gpr:89:15: expected "tools"
> >>> tools.gpr:95:04: unexpected text following end of project
> >>> gprbuild: "tools/tools.gpr" processing failed
> >>> make: *** [build-native] Error 4
> >>> root at debian:/home/brett/Gnat2011/AWS/aws-gpl-2.10.0-src# 
> >>> ===============================================================
> >>
> >> Probably because of the problem above?
> >>
> >> What is the output for:
> >>
> >>    $ gnatls -v
> > 
> > 
> > ===============
> > brett at debian:~$ gnatls -v
> > 
> > GNATLS 4.4.5
> > Copyright (C) 1997-2008, Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> 
> As you see that's not that simple. Here you have the FSF compiler but
> you (reading your message) expect to build with GNAT GPL 2011. The
> GCC/GNAT 4.4 at the FSF is probably too old to build AWS. And I can't
> even bet which compiler you were using as root!
> 
> So make sure GNAT GPL 2011 come first into the PATH.

I made sure the PATH was as you suggest, however things went downhill
from there!

I re-installed a clean Debian 6.0 and apart from a few utilities like
IceWeasel & Claws_Mail I tried to install Ada ( ver 5 ) & AWS from the
downloaded AdaCore Package and not Debian's repositories or the DVD set
I have.

However, I think there might be some problems with the AdaCore down
loaded package(s).

Initially Ada/GPS version 5 seemed OK, but "sometimes" the GPS linker
requested non existent files from a previous Ada version!

This is prior to installing AWS off the AdaCore download package.

========================================================

When I tried to install AWS while in 'user' ( not root) I found that
the some extracted files exhibited 'odd' owner/group values eg : owner
4168 group 1100 and the Gnat linker failed to load certain files.

========================================================

So I deleted every Ada/GPS/AWS related file and reinstalled using the
standard Ada/GPS Debian repository files, AND libaws2.7 & libaws2.7-dev

eg: I now have this version of GNAT
================================================
GNATLS 4.4.5
Copyright (C) 1997-2008, Free Software Foundation, Inc.

Source Search Path:
   <Current_Directory>
   /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.4.4/adainclude/


Object Search Path:
   <Current_Directory>
   /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.4.4/adalib/


Project Search Path:
   <Current_Directory>
   /usr/share/ada/adainclude/

==========================================================
Which I realize is a few years out of date :-), but it has one very
useful feature - it works! I then installed LIBAWS from the Debian 6.0
AMD64 release.

==========================================================

root at debian:/home/brett# apt-get install libaws2.7-dev
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  libasis2008 libaws-bin libaws-doc libldap2-dev
libtemplates-parser-doc libtemplates-parser11.5-dev libxmlada-doc
libxmlada3.2-dev zlib1g-dev Suggested packages: libaws-dbg
libjs-prototype The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libasis2008 libaws-bin libaws-doc libaws2.7-dev libldap2-dev
libtemplates-parser-doc libtemplates-parser11.5-dev libxmlada-doc
libxmlada3.2-dev zlib1g-dev 0 upgraded, 10 newly installed, 0 to remove
and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B/12.9 MB of archives.
After this operation, 53.4 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Selecting previously deselected package libasis2008.
(Reading database ... 93291 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking libasis2008 (from .../libasis2008_2008-5_amd64.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package libaws-bin.
Unpacking libaws-bin (from .../libaws-bin_2.7-4_amd64.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package libaws-doc.
Unpacking libaws-doc (from .../libaws-doc_2.7-4_all.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package libldap2-dev.
Unpacking libldap2-dev (from .../libldap2-dev_2.4.23-7.2_amd64.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package libtemplates-parser11.5-dev.
Unpacking libtemplates-parser11.5-dev
(from .../libtemplates-parser11.5-dev_11.5-4_amd64.deb) ... Selecting
previously deselected package libxmlada3.2-dev. Unpacking
libxmlada3.2-dev (from .../libxmlada3.2-dev_3.2-5_amd64.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package zlib1g-dev. Unpacking
zlib1g-dev (from .../zlib1g-dev_1%3a1.2.3.4.dfsg-3_amd64.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package libaws2.7-dev. Unpacking
libaws2.7-dev (from .../libaws2.7-dev_2.7-4_amd64.deb) ... Selecting
previously deselected package libtemplates-parser-doc. Unpacking
libtemplates-parser-doc
(from .../libtemplates-parser-doc_11.5-4_all.deb) ... Selecting
previously deselected package libxmlada-doc. Unpacking libxmlada-doc
(from .../libxmlada-doc_3.2-5_all.deb) ... Processing triggers for
man-db ... Processing triggers for install-info ... Setting up
libasis2008 (2008-5) ... Setting up libaws-bin (2.7-4) ...
Setting up libaws-doc (2.7-4) ...
Setting up libldap2-dev (2.4.23-7.2) ...
Setting up libtemplates-parser11.5-dev (11.5-4) ...
Setting up libxmlada3.2-dev (3.2-5) ...
Setting up zlib1g-dev (1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3) ...
Setting up libaws2.7-dev (2.7-4) ...
Setting up libtemplates-parser-doc (11.5-4) ...
Setting up libxmlada-doc (3.2-5) ...
root at debian:/home/brett# 

==========================================
Unfortunately I did not copy the output from 
$apt-get install libaws2.7, but the results are shown below.


brett at debian:~$ dpkg -L libaws2.7
/.
/usr
/usr/lib
/usr/lib/libaws.so.2.7
/usr/share
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/libaws2.7
/usr/share/doc/libaws2.7/copyright
/usr/share/doc/libaws2.7/changelog.Debian.gz
brett at debian:~$ 
===========================================

Now I have a working ADA/GPS & AWS system, not the latest version I was
after  :-) , but at least a working version.

Failures
========

I'm really not sure why the AdaCore AWS version install failed, but it
would appear to be a combination of:

-- a AMD64 Debian base ?,
-- left over files from failed installs,
-- my uncertainty of what was wrong, or do, when install scripts issued
error messages, -- and possibility not a very good install procedure.

I think the install procedures need a re-write, certainly all I could
find was information on doing the usual make setup / build / install
procedures, and it was only via Ludovic Brenta's posting here that I
discovered that indeed a pre-compiled libaws & -dev file set existed
for apt-get installation ! I had assumed that I HAD to attempt the
traditional make route :-)

Aborting AdaCore version.
=========================
When I started getting a variety of error messages depending upon if I
was installing in as a user or root, the situation of the install
procedures not having enough permission to access required files, or
indeed files appeared to be missing anyway arose, files having strange
( to me) ownership, etc, and asking me to hand edit install scripts to
set various parameters. I assume these scripts work on some O/S's but
did not under my Debian 6.0 AMD64, rather than direct editing perhaps a
simple question/answer script might have been better. I had to rerun
make a number of times, re edit, to finally flush out the parameter
setting 'errors'. I decided that I had to revert to the Debian release
version to get on with installing my user programs.


In summary: 
===========

to get a working Ada/GPS/AWS setup:

login as root ( use 'su' command ):
1) install gnat-gps from your O/s's  repository using 'apt-get install
gnat-gps' 

2) install libaws2.7  ( or what ever version your O/S
offers ) using apt-get 

3) install libaws2.7-dev  using apt-get, should
be same version as libaws.

as user:
4) add a icon to your desktop and set its properties command
to /usr/bin/gnat-gps ( your O/S might be different)



> 
> Please, would be nice to keep the AWS mailing-list copied, others may
> give help too.

Quite right ! My mistake.
> 
> Pascal.
> 



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Cheers,
Brett