Trouble installing gforth

tomonos · 2024-09-14 05:49:51

This is probably a stupid one and maybe I'm just blind and didn't notice, but I tried to install gforth from the AUR and got the following error message (posting the log through a file sharing site for readability). It seems as if it cannot find/open some C libraries for some reason?

These are my settings -

uname -a
Linux archlinux 6.10.9-arch1-2 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Tue, 10 Sep 2024 14:37:32 +0000 x86_64 GNU/Linux

libtool --version
libtool (GNU libtool) 2.5.2.1-2fe3a-dirty
Written by Gordon Matzigkeit, 1996

Copyright (C) 2024 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

and running with

libffi-3.4.6-1

Any tips will be appreciated, and apologies if this question seems redundant or trivial to the community in advance.
Thank you lots!

philo · 2024-09-14 09:23:21

This is an AUR package.

The latest version of libtool is here:
https://archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/libtool/

tomonos · 2024-09-14 09:27:59

philo wrote:

This is an AUR package.
The latest version of libtool is here:
https://archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/libtool/

Oh, should I move the issue to a different forum?

philo · 2024-09-14 09:42:51

A moderator will do it if necessary.

EDIT - Did you make a full upgrade?

Last edited by philo (2024-09-14 09:44:26)

WorMzy · 2024-09-14 10:17:40

Mod note: moving to AUR Issues.

Trilby · 2024-09-14 12:14:30

FWIW, I'd strongly recommend using one of the recommended file sharing sites, or at least one that doesn't require everyone to download random content just to see your error logs.

Lone_Wolf · 2024-09-14 12:52:58

file.io wrote:

File will be deleted after download

Also look for one that doesn't limit access to one use.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/List_o … n_services

tomonos · 2024-09-16 08:34:24

philo wrote:

A moderator will do it if necessary.
EDIT - Did you make a full upgrade?

Apologies for the late reply but yes, I did make a full upgrade via

pacman -Syu

but alas that didn't resolve it.

tomonos · 2024-09-16 08:42:20

Lone_Wolf wrote:

file.io wrote:
File will be deleted after download
Also look for one that doesn't limit access to one use.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/List_o … n_services

Apologies for that. Thank you for the recommendation, tho. I've uploaded the log file to https://0x0.st/X382.txt. I should probably also add that I'm currently running

find /usr/lib -name "libffi.so*"

/usr/lib/libffi.so
/usr/lib/libffi.so.8
/usr/lib/libffi.so.8.1.4
/usr/lib/debug/usr/lib/libffi.so.7.1.0.debug
/usr/lib/libffi.so.7
/usr/lib/libffi.so.7.1.0

where I installed

libffi7

from the AUR in hopes that downgrading the version of the package would resolve the issue. I've seen some people create a symlink to an older version, but that's generally not recommended.

Lone_Wolf · 2024-09-16 12:30:22

The version that PKGBUILD tries to build is 9 years old, no wonder it doesn't build.

A comment on the gforth aur page has a PKGBUILD build for a recent version, but it has a typo and refers to a gforth.install file that's not posted .
You could use it as a start to update the package .

tomonos · 2024-09-16 15:40:32

Lone_Wolf wrote:

The version that PKGBUILD tries to build is 9 years old, no wonder it doesn't build.
A comment on the gforth aur page has a PKGBUILD build for a recent version, but it has a typo and refers to a gforth.install file that's not posted .
You could use it as a start to update the package .

Well, never done anything similar but can try. 0.7.3 is the latest stable release of gforth according to its website, with 0.7.9 being a current one. I'll try to look for that gforth.install file they mention.

loqs · 2024-09-16 16:09:59

tomonos wrote:

I'll try to look for that gforth.install file they mention.

https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/ … l?h=gforth
Or it might be simpler to replace the PKGBUILD of gforth with the comment from https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gfor … ent-978300 and fix the makedepends entry on line 13.
Edit:
Or adjust the current PKGBUILD to use a source snapshot:

diff --git a/PKGBUILD b/PKGBUILD
index 4b68b4a..127eebc 100644
--- a/PKGBUILD
+++ b/PKGBUILD
@@ -4,18 +4,17 @@
 # Contributor: Tom Newsom <Jeepster@gmx.co.uk>
 
 pkgname=gforth
-pkgver=0.7.3
+pkgver=0.7.9_20240613
 pkgrel=1
 url="http://www.gnu.org/software/gforth/"
 pkgdesc="Fast and portable implementation of the ANS Forth language"
 arch=('i686' 'x86_64' 'armv6h')
 license=('GPL3')
 depends=('libtool')
-source=("http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/$pkgname/$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz")
+source=("http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/$pkgname/Snapshots/$pkgver/$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.xz")
+md5sums=('e723cef6be6ae68395859b116651d6a9')
 options=('libtool')
 install=$pkgname.install
-md5sums=('96f2354ec8c4005e1a54035586ed683e')
-md5sums=('ff484391e5cdf405867fcf96341820ab')
 
 build() {
     cd "$srcdir/$pkgname-$pkgver"

Last edited by loqs (2024-09-16 16:24:26)

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