Re: [Edbrowse-dev] Problem installing git version on debian sid

[Chuck Hallenbeck <chuckhallenbeck@gmail.com>]

Hi Jeff,

On Mon, 4 Dec 2017, Geoff McLane wrote:

> Hi Chuck,
>
> Concerning HTML Tidy, not sure what you refer to when you say 'master.zip'? 
> What README?

The README is in the edbrowse directory created by the git-clone . It 
says to retrieve 
https://github.com/htacg/tidy-html5/archive/master.zip


>
> We have just released 5.6.0, and that should be 5.6.0.zip, or if you want to 
> build from the repo -
> $ git checkout master
> $ git pull
> and the version.txt file should contain 5.6.0, 2017.11.25, being the latest 
> release...


Not sure how to get the 5.6.0 package from the above. 
>
> But concerning your problem, not sure I really have the answer, but cmake 
> should be able to find a working cxx/cpp compiler in your system...
>
> My cmake 3.2.2 in Ubuntu linux, 14.04 shows "Check ... /usr/bin/c++ -- 
> works"...
>
> Actually tidy does not require cxx/cpp - it is a pure C project - and you 
> could add this to the CMakeLists.txt, like change the line -
> project (${LIB_NAME})
> to
> project (${LIB_NAME} C)
>
> And that will tell cmake to ONLY look for a C compiler... and might get tidy 
> 5.6.0 built...
>
> But you will still need a cxx/cpp compiler for 'edbrowse', since it likewise 
> has only cmake 'project (edbrowse)', in its CMakeLists.txt, which without the 
> [LANGUAGE] option will likewise try to test both C and CXX by default, 
> whether actually needed or not...
>
> The real question is why is your Debian sid failing on this most basic of 
> cmake tests? A cxx/cpp compiler should be installed...

Well actually it is installed at /usr/bin/cpp, which is a symlink to 
cpp-7 in the same directory.  But that produced the error when 
attempting to compile the test program.  The error said the option -c 
was not recognized by the preprocessor. .

>
> I hope others can address that...
>
> HTH, Geoff.
Thanks for your response ... I'm not sure I'm quite up to this.



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