Won't 'build' as-is; .gitignore possibly to blame

[ttelford]

When I checkout the code via git, and attempt to build it, I run into a problem: ./configure works fine, but 'make' does not:

Making all in frontend make[1]: Entering directory /home/ttelford/src/remocular/remOcular/frontend' make[1]: Nothing to be done forall'. make[1]: Leaving directory /home/ttelford/src/remocular/remOcular/frontend' Making all in backend make[1]: Entering directory/home/ttelford/src/remocular/remOcular/backend' make[1]: * No rule to make target public/script/remocular.js', needed byall-am'. Stop. make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/ttelford/src/remocular/remOcular/backend' make: * [all-recursive] Error 1

It appears that the git repository doesn't have backend/public.

.gitignore has backend/public listed, which is probably why it's not in git.

The question is: Should backed/public be in the git repo? If not, how is it generated?

[ttelford]

Ah; found the issue: The README doesn't state that PERL5LIB needs to be set to a valid value.

[oetiker]

Hi Troy,

backend/public will be built if you have the qooxdoo sdk installed ... in the tar distro I provide a pre built version ...

I guess the error message shoud be better ... :-) will look at it.

cheers tobi

Yesterday Troy Telford wrote:

When I checkout the code via git, and attempt to build it, I run into a problem: ./configure works fine, but 'make' does not:

Making all in frontend make[1]: Entering directory /home/ttelford/src/remocular/remOcular/frontend' make[1]: Nothing to be done forall'. make[1]: Leaving directory /home/ttelford/src/remocular/remOcular/frontend' Making all in backend make[1]: Entering directory/home/ttelford/src/remocular/remOcular/backend' make[1]: * No rule to make target public/script/remocular.js', needed byall-am'. Stop. make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/ttelford/src/remocular/remOcular/backend' make: * [all-recursive] Error 1

It appears that the git repository doesn't have backend/public.

.gitignore has backend/public listed, which is probably why it's not in git.

The question is: Should backed/public be in the git repo? If not, how is it generated?

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[ttelford]

I would be happy to document my experiences so the README can be improved. I think this could be valuable as it seems the README is "missing" steps that are probably obvious to you, but aren't obvious to me.

Notes:

• qooxdoo sdk is required when building from git
• ./setup/build-perl-modules.sh backend/thirdparty doesn't appear to work:

--> Working on MojoX::Dispatcher::Qooxdoo::Jsonrpc Fetching http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/M/MB/MBP/MojoX-Dispatcher-Qooxdoo-Jsonrpc-0.83.tar.gz ... OK backend/thirdparty/work/1328459900.7702: No such file or directory at /loader/0x262b9a8/App/cpanminus/script.pm line 858.

The script does work if I give it no arguments, however... then I move the thirdparty directory into backend. I'm not sure if this is the right thing to do, but it seems to work.

• After I've successfully built remocular, I can run env QX_SRC_MODE=1 MOJO_LOG_LEVEL=debug REMOCULAR_CONF=../etc/remocular.cfg.dist ./remocular.pl daemon and it appears to work - I can access the service without any issues.
• however- after running sudo make install, copying & modifying ${PREFIX}/etc/emocular.cfg.dist, and then running ${PREFIX}/bin/remocular.pl daemon, I receive the error: Plugin "qooxdoo_jsonrpc" missing, maybe you need to install it?

I've also attempted to configure Apache to run remocular; however the README doesn't really cover this step. It seems my problems with Apache are at least partly due to the fact I can't run the daemon from the installation ${PREFIX}

• Visiting the index.fcgi gives the the error (in apache) Plugin "qooxdoo_jsonrpc" missing, maybe you need to install it?
• If I visit the 'public' webpage - ie. remocular/public I see the remocular webui, and immediately receive a little AJAX dialog box with a '404' error. In this case the apache error log shows: File does not exist: /var/www/remocular/public/jsonrpc

[oetiker]

I just pushed some updates ... does this help ?

[ttelford]

On Feb 5, 2012, at 1:35 PM, Tobias Oetiker wrote:

I just pushed some updates ... does this help ?

It is most helpful; I'm now able to run it as a daemon from the installe prefix. The only thing left for me is figuring out how to configure Apache to use it...

Troy Telford troy.telford@gmail.com

[oetiker]

I have added some notes on apache configuration.