Maxim,
Thanks for that suggestion.
Just for the record, I have been using the git package, so I tried the tar.gz package.
When I used the "http://www.swftools.org/swftools-0.9.2.tar.gz", it all comiled OK the first time. There seems to be a differece between the two. My current solution is to try the tar.gz package in Ubuntu now., but I don't have access to a Ubuntu system at the moment so that will have to wait for a while.
Thanks,
George Kirkham
At Saturday, 26/05/2012 on 3:35 pm Maxim Solodovnik wrote:
you can try to get *.deb file from http://linuxappfinder.com/package/swftools0.9.0-0ubuntu2 works fine on my Ubuntu 10.10-12.04On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 12:09 PM, George Kirkham <gkirk...@co2crc.com.au> wrote:Stehpen,
I reported the issue to the SWF Tools forum and they have now replied" The 'test' command has the -o and -L switches. AFAIAA, 'test' was
replaced with 'rm -f', but, the extra switches got accidentally left behind. The Makefile for both current and Git versions no longer contains them".
It was also suggested that I add the following packages. Do you know if they are requried or not ?
apt-get install libfontconfig1-dev libfftw3-dev libzzip-dev libpoppler-dev
George Kirkham
At Saturday, 26/05/2012 on 12:01 am Stephen Cottham wrote:Ok tested on clean Ubuntu and the same error occurs now, I don’t understand that at all because I didn’t need to do anything different the first time round yet now it fails, the only thing I left out of this new build was installing Open Office and Java, I just skipped straight to the SWFTools install.
I can confirm that removing the –o and –L from the swfs/Makefile allows it to complete.
Cheers
From: Stephen Cottham [mailto:stephen.cott...@robertbird.com.au]
Sent: 25 May 2012 14:27
To: openmeetings-user@incubator.apache.org
Subject: RE: compiling swftools in Debian and Ubuntu
Hey George,
This also fails on a fresh build of Debian, like you if I just edited the file /swf/Makefile and removed the –o and –L it continues and installs.
I’ll have to try the Ubuntu again later but this was working yesterday so im somewhat confused if that also now fails.
Either way it does seem like an issue with the installation package.
Cheers
From: Stephen Cottham [mailto:stephen.cott...@robertbird.com.au]
Sent: 25 May 2012 13:52
To: openmeetings-user@incubator.apache.org
Subject: RE: compiling swftools in Debian and Ubuntu
Hey George
I can confirm that Debian Squeeze also failed but I had success with Ubuntu.
I’ll build two new fresh ones and confirm both for you.
Cheers
From: George Kirkham [mailto:gkirk...@co2crc.com.au (Exchange)]
Sent: 25 May 2012 13:49
To: openmeetings-user@incubator.apache.org
Subject: RE: compiling swftools in Debian and Ubuntu
Stephen,
Thanks for doing a test for me. Debian Squeeze I guess? It will be a while before I can build a clean debian and test again, but if the below works for you, I will have to test again for me.
Thanks,George Kirkham
At Friday, 25/05/2012 on 10:44 pm Stephen Cottham wrote:Hi George,
The way I sent you the other day worked fine for me multiple times on the Ubuntu system, no need to manipulate the make file, this is curious that you had to. (I’ll test Debian right now)
cd /usr/adm
wget http://www.swftools.org/swftools-0.9.2.tar.gz
tar -zxvf swftools-0.9.2.tar.gz
cd swftools-0.9.2
./configure
make
make install
Once that has completed you can now test it by issuing the following:
pdf2swf –version
Which should give you the following output:
pdf2swf - part of swftools 0.9.2
This is on a fresh install following the guide thou, was this a pre-built machine you had been using?
Cheers
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From: George Kirkham [mailto:gkirk...@co2crc.com.au (Exchange)]
Sent: 25 May 2012 13:40
To: openmeetings-user@incubator.apache.org
Subject: compiling swftools in Debian and Ubuntu
Hi,
Looking for anyone who has experience with compiling SWF Tools, and who could comment on the following statements of mine.
I have been looking for a way to compile/install the latest version of SWF Tools in both Debian and Ubuntu.
My attempts in both fail with errors, however I have found a way in Debian, by manually changing (I believe correcting) the swftools make script.
What I would like to know is, "Is the SWF Tools package have a fault and is creating an incorrect script for Debian installations?"
Here is what I have found.
I ran the following steps and then got the below error message;
./configure >../swfconfigure.log 2>&1
make >../debswfmake.log 2>&1
make install >../debswfinst.log
The "make install" generated the following error message and then stopped.
rm -f /usr/local/share/swftools/swfs/default_viewer.swf -o -L /usr/local/share/swftools/swfs/default_viewer.swf
rm: invalid option -- 'o'
Try `rm --help' for more information.
make[1]: *** [install] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/adm/swftools/swftools-0.9.2/swfs'
make: *** [install] Error 2
Using the below search line, I located the files swfs/Make and swfs/Make.in
find . -type f -name "*.*" -print0 | xargs -0 -e grep -nH -e "default_viewer.swf"
In these files were the lines;
rm -f $(pkgdatadir)/swfs/default_viewer.swf -o -L $(pkgdatadir)/swfs/default_viewer.swf
$(LN_S) $(pkgdatadir)/swfs/simple_viewer.swf $(pkgdatadir)/swfs/default_viewer.swf
rm -f $(pkgdatadir)/swfs/default_loader.swf -o -L $(pkgdatadir)/swfs/default_loader.swf
$(LN_S) $(pkgdatadir)/swfs/tessel_loader.swf $(pkgdatadir)/swfs/default_loader.swf
As this is the first time that I have installed SWF Tools, there cannot be a file called "$(pkgdatadir)/swfs/default_viewer.swf", that is the file "/usr/local/share/swftools/swfs/default_viewer.swf", and maybe this is the only error in the script?
However reading the Debian man pages, I cannot find any "-o -L" parameters, so is the rest of this line also incorrect, or is there more happening here than the man pages explain?
If I remove the two lines which will cause the script to stop, and then run "make install", the script runs without errors and swftools is correctly installed.
/usr/adm/swftools/swftools-0.9.2# pdf2swf --version
pdf2swf - part of swftools 0.9.2
At this point I am happy that the installation works well, but I am not happy in that I believe there is an error in the SWF Tools installation package, and believe that the SWF Tools team should fix this.
I also have tested the below line after the default_viewer.swf link (pointing to simple_viewer.swf) was installed and so existed, and the rm command still fails as "-o -L" in invalid in Debian (or so I believe).
rm -f /usr/local/share/swftools/swfs/default_viewer.swf -o -L /usr/local/share/swftools/swfs/default_viewer.swf--
WBR
Maxim aka solomax
