xerxes on 2013-02-27 06:27:17.000

Great idea to post this. I got the basics for 64 bit compilation from Lutz on the forum, but had to figure out that file locations were a problem, finally fixing them as you have outlined.

xerxes on 2013-02-27 06:44:22.000

testing a post after signing in ok

frednerx on 2013-02-27 06:45:21.000

Well, if he can test a post after signing in, why don't I?

frednerx on 2013-02-27 08:30:00.000

testing from a different setup ...

frednerx on 2013-02-27 08:31:51.000

and another setup ...

xerxes on 2013-03-04 13:18:20.000

After some trouble, my test site is up and running again, but posts and replies do not work. I get the following error:

"SQL logic error or missing database query problem"

which I did not encounter before.

Where should I start to fix this?

Rocket Man on 2013-03-04 20:07:54.000

That's an issue with the database file itself. Apache can read it but doesn't have permissions to write the file.

First, chmod 755 ROCKETS-DB.db (or whatever the database name is)

Then chown www-data:www-data ROCKETS-DB.db

Now, here's the weird thing. You ALSO have to chown the directory that the database is in, to make the database itself writeable by the Apache process.

So you chown www-data:www-data /var/www as well.

xerxes on 2013-03-05 01:14:05.000

Excellent. Will try those steps. How am I ever going to learn all this A Patchy Server config stuff ... ?

xerxes on 2013-03-05 06:26:55.000

Those three steps did the trick. I haven't yet checked in detail, but there are no longer errors, and post/replies appear ok. Great!

xerxes on 2013-08-20 13:40:03.000

Ubuntu did a rare belly up on me the other day: I was running Raring, and the Unity went totally moggy. Reinstalling worked (on 3rd attempt - there were further screen handling problems) and nothing was lost, and everything worked better and better after a couple of updates.

However, I decided to try Crunchbang Linux, which uses OpenBox (tired of slow GUI stuff), and also because it is Debian, rather than Ubuntu based. It's on a SSD, and everything hums along beautifully. More to the point, though, I'd like to thank you for this post about getting newLISP from source. Fantastic. What a doddle. Now I just have to create a menu item for it. As it turns out, OpenBox makes it pretty easy to create menu items, but I'll leave that for tomorrow.

Thanks again.

xerxes on 2014-08-20 06:56:26.000

Hope all is well.

For anyone's information:

I had a problem with building newLISP 10.6.0 from source (on Ubuntu 14.04), but found a post from author Lutz, saying these two lines should be inserted into newlisp.c and/or newlisp.c.

typedef char *CPFunction ();
typedef char **CPPFunction ();

I inserted in both. It fixed the problem - "sudo make" and "sudo make install" proceeded perfectly.

Rocket Man on 2014-09-02 14:52:54.000

Thanks Xerxes, that's helpful information!

Things are going really well. I've been busy at work, but I've been using Rockets to develop some pretty spiffy in-house tools, so it's been good times!

xerxes on 2020-01-20 18:29:15.000

Hi Rocket Man

Something has changed in the meantimve - this tripped up on libreadline6, after which "sudo make" didn't complete:
//
Package libreadline6 is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

E: Package 'libreadline6' has no installation candidate
//