installing and using V4REV in Linux questions

[Warren Samples]

On Fri, 2010-11-26 at 20:03 +0200, Ruslan Zasukhin wrote:
> Hi Warren,
> 
> Today Ivan have spend few hours to convert our old V4REV linux project
> to
> new NetBeans format.
> 
> I very hope that in nearest 3-4 days we will produce massive beta
> build of
> 4.8 product line, with new report engine, which we have developed last
> 7
> months.
> 
> And this new beta build will have new V4REV linux archive.
> 
> Please wait for it, ok ?
> 
> 
> -- 
> Best regards,
> 
> Ruslan Zasukhin
> VP Engineering and New Technology
> Paradigma Software, Inc 



Hello Ruslan,

4.8 is now public, but V4REV on Linux situation doesn't seem to have
improved. The new archive does not include either the
Livecode/Revolution external, V4REV.so, or the database driver,
valentina2.so. It does include the same readme with the questionable
usage instructions as well as a dead link to some further instructions.
Running the install script and subsequently checking dependencies (using
the "old" V4REV.so) results in this:

warren at mint-i7 ~/Desktop/valentina $ sudo sh install.sh
ln: accessing `libvclient_release_x86.so': Too many levels of symbolic
links
ln: accessing `libvkernel_release_x86.so': Too many levels of symbolic
links
ln: accessing `libvreport_release_x86.so': Too many levels of symbolic
links
ln: accessing `libvshared_release_x86.so': Too many levels of symbolic
links
warren at mint-i7 ~/Desktop/valentina $ ldd
'/home/warren/my_livecode/Externals/V4REV.so' 
linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0xf7759000)
libVShared_Linux_Release.so => not found
libVClient_Linux_Release.so => not found
libVKernel_Linux_Release.so => not found
libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib32/libX11.so.6 (0xf7616000)
libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib32/libstdc++.so.6 (0xf752b000)
libm.so.6 => /lib32/libm.so.6 (0xf7505000)
libgcc_s.so.1 => /usr/lib32/libgcc_s.so.1 (0xf74e9000)
libc.so.6 => /lib32/libc.so.6 (0xf738d000)
libxcb.so.1 => /usr/lib32/libxcb.so.1 (0xf7373000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib32/libdl.so.2 (0xf736f000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xf775a000)
libXau.so.6 => /usr/lib32/libXau.so.6 (0xf736b000)
libXdmcp.so.6 => /usr/lib32/libXdmcp.so.6 (0xf7365000)


Is there something I am missing? While it's true I couldn't get V4REV to
initialize in a script, it did at least install!

Also, there are still no included instructions for setting up the
required Externals/database_drivers environment within Livecode
(Revolution), let alone anything like the nifty installer that comes
with the Mac and Windows versions. Also not included are instructions
for getting things installed and working with a finished application.
These might be a welcome addition.

Sincerely,

Warren Samples