installing and using V4REV in Linux questions

[Ivan Smahin]

On 12/15/2010 8:56 AM, Warren Samples wrote:
> 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.

I will check it now - readme and instructions - I thought I did the 
changes there.
> 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
>
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Regarding setup procedure - you did it right - just copy V4Rev.so into 
~/my_LiveCode/Externals.

http://www.valentina-db.com/download/beta/4.8b22/linux_32/v4rev_4_lin.tar.gz 
indeed contains neither V4Rev.so
nor db driver.

I hope for new beta today with proper install package.

-- 
Best regards,
Ivan Smahin
Senior Software Engineer
Paradigma Software, Inc
Valentina - The Ultra-Fast Database
http://www.valentina-db.com