Installing (or building) Ice on Suse 9.3

lancepw

I'd like to try Ice (we use Corba/ORBit now) and see it has RPMs for downloading/installation. Probably because they are intended for Fedora and not Suse, I get the following errors:

lance@lns:/var/downloads> sudo rpm -Uhv ice-2.1.2-1.i386.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
libcrypto.so.4 is needed by ice-2.1.2-1
libdb_cxx-4.2.so is needed by ice-2.1.2-1
libreadline.so.4 is needed by ice-2.1.2-1
libssl.so.4 is needed by ice-2.1.2-1
libstdc++.so.6 is needed by ice-2.1.2-1
libstdc++.so.6(CXXABI_1.3) is needed by ice-2.1.2-1
libstdc++.so.6(GLIBCXX_3.4) is needed by ice-2.1.2-1
lance@lns:/var/downloads>

I'm running Suse 9.3 professional, fairly stock:

lance@lns:/var/downloads> uname -a
Linux lns 2.6.11.4-20a-default #1 Wed Mar 23 21:52:37 UTC 2005 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
lance@lns:/var/downloads> cat /etc/SuSE-release
SuSE Linux 9.3 (i586)
VERSION = 9.3

I believe my option is then to build Ice, but after following the directions, I'm faced with build errors:

lance@lns:/var/downloads/build/Ice-2.1.2/src/Freeze> make
c++ -c -I.. -I../../include -DFREEZE_API_EXPORTS -g -ftemplate-depth-128 -fPIC -Wall -D_REENTRANT EvictorI.cpp
In file included from ../Freeze/EvictorI.h:16,
from EvictorI.cpp:10:
../Freeze/ObjectStore.h:22:20: db_cxx.h: No such file or directory

and I have similar problems trying to install Berkeley DB to get db_cxx.h:

error: Failed dependencies:
libstdc++.so.6 is needed by libdbcxx4.2-4.2.52-6mdk

What am I doing wrong? Should I pursue getting an RPM installation to work (preferred), or a build of Ice?

Thanks, -Lance.

marc

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rdilipk

Marc
Why don't you broadcast that new support policy to all your present registered users via email? You can also consider automatically sending that email when a new user registers (you know, as a part of registration confirmation email).

marc

Well, there is always a fine line between "spam" and informational emails. No matter what we do, someone will complain that either we do not send enough emails, or that we send too many.

I agree that we should change the email for new registrations. But I first have to find out how

lancepw

Ice on Suse?

Okay - added signature - still stuck trying to figure out how to get Ice on Suse 9.3. -Lance.

mes

Hi Lance,

If your source build of Ice has made it successfully to the Freeze directory, then you've already got most of what you need to complete the build. I suggest building Berkeley DB from sources, making sure to run configure with the option --enable-cxx (and --enable-java if necessary).

Let us know if you're still having trouble.

Take care,
- Mark

lancepw

Thanks

Ice is now built (after a few hand-tweaks) and working well - thanks.

And the documentation is fantastic - very well done!

I'm enthused about the possibilities of using Ice - hoping someday there's a way I can install Ice on our machines without having to build or copy it by hand. We are using a mix of Suse 9.3 and RedHat 9.0, neither of which accept the Ice RPMs I found to download. But for right now, it's an amazing package and I'm enthused to be trying it.

Thanks, -Lance.