Re: yet another install difficulty.

[Yngve Svendsen]

At 09:40 04.06.2003 -0700, Michael Stumpf wrote:
> Installed gnats 3.999.2.  Built from scratch.  Everything is happy; I can
> telnet in, login, change database (though I am only using 1.  default).
>
> Installed gnatsweb 2.9.3 as per instructions, but the "make test" command 
> fails
> in a way I've not seen talked about on this forum:
>
> address@hidden:/home/mjstumpf/gnatsweb-2.9.3# make test USERNAME=mjstumpf
> PASSWORD=hehehehe DATABASE=default
> perl test.pl
> connect...........................................FAIL
> connect...........................................FAIL
> make: *** [test] Error 1
> address@hidden:/home/mjstumpf/gnatsweb-2.9.3#
>
> I've got an /etc/gnats-db.conf file that I believe is valid; if I change the
> name of DATABASE in the 'make test' line I get similar results/complaints as
> others in the forum.  The interesting thing here is that the connect....FAIL
> line is printed twice.. ?
>
> If I 'just go ahead and make install anyway', I get to the login screen 
> with an
> empty database list; logging in 'works' but results in returning to the login
> screen.

Gnatsweb 2.x will not work with GNATS 3.999. Use Gnatsweb 3.99.4 which can 
be found in the contrib subdirectory of the GNATS 3.999.2 distribution.

Yngve Svendsen
Gnatsweb maintainer