MathMap on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial

[Dos Santos Mendes Filipe]

Hi,

I try to install MathMap on Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial) and am confronted to a problem whith libnoise.

I tried to install from the tar.gz sources and after that, from the git repository.

The two methods ended the same when compiling with the following error message

builtins/libnoise.cpp:23:19: fatal error: noise.h: File not found

I think all the dependencies are installed. Anyway, libnoise is builtin so I presume a little something is missing for my ubuntu version and I don't know what.

thanks by advance to all who'll give me a hand on this :)

[Tom Rathborne]

Hola!

On Wed, Jul 06, 2016 at 12:27:15PM -0700, Dos Santos Mendes Filipe wrote:
> I try to install MathMap on Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial) and am confronted to a
> problem whith libnoise.
>
> I tried to install from the tar.gz sources and after that, from the git
> repository.
>
> The two methods ended the same when compiling with the following error
> message
> builtins/libnoise.cpp:23:19: fatal error: noise.h: File not found
>
> I think all the dependencies are installed. Anyway, libnoise is builtin so I
> presume a little something is missing for my ubuntu version and I don't know
> what.

TL;DR:

git/mathmap$ rm -rf libnoise
git/mathmap$ make libnoise
git/mathmap$ make

Details:

... only to find another problem, see below for what I found!
I have Linux Mint with a hosed build system, but I also have debootstrap:

# mkdir /data/xenial ; debootstrap xenial /data/xenial
... mount -o loop { various system partitions }
# chroot /data/xenial
... install libgimp2.0-dev, 115M of deps, etc ...
# git clone https://github.com/schani/mathmap.git
... hack around ...

I found this zipfile ... and these diffs ...
Oh right, I knew that -- it's "make libnoise"!

This invokes the Makefile rule which extracts
libnoisesrc-1.0.0.zip
applies patches (libnoise*.diff), and builds it.

So, that's not a Xenial-specific solution,
but now I have a problem that I didn't have on Mint:

In file included from compiler.c:48:0:
opfuncs.h: In function 'fold_rhs':
opmacros.h:106:31: error: too many arguments to function
'gsl_sf_ellint_D'
#define ELL_INT_D(phi,k,n) gsl_sf_ellint_D((phi), (k), (n),
GSL_PREC_SINGLE)

So, there's some change to the gsl api in Xenial? *sigh*

While I was hacking it died on a libgif API change, the &error
parameter had disappeared, but I didn't hit that error again.

So yeah, a bit of bitrot and apparent nondeterminism is in your
future. I wish I understood autoconf better; it would make building
MathMap much less painful.

> thanks by advance to all who'll give me a hand on this :)

I hope I got you un-stuck, and I'll look into the API changes
when I have more time! Maybe you can adjust the code, there
are more clues than just "noise.h missing". :)

Speaking of time, broadband Internet and SSD are so amazing --
installing a whole xenial system with gimp development environment and
then getting most of the way through a mathmap build took less time
and effort than just downloading and installing mathmap used to!

Cheers,

Tom

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but the will to find out,
which is the exact opposite.
-- Bertrand Russell, "Skeptical Essays", 1928

[Dos Santos Mendes Filipe]

Hi Tom, thank you for the tips. I'm very not familiar with compiling sources (not at all really)

And tried to recompile libnoise as you recommended. The result is the same when I make MathMap, I get the same error as previously.

As my un derstanding an knowledge are limited, I don't know what to do :D Thank you anyways for trying !

I saw some warning compiling libnoise (obsolete constants and so)

[Tom Rathborne]

Alllll righty!

My laptop is back with a fresh install of Linux Mint MATE 18, which is
based on Xenial, so I'll do this from scratch-ish. I think this will
cover all of the development library requirements:

$ apt-get install build-essential doxygen libtool-bin libgtksourceview2.0-dev libgif-dev clisp libgsl-dev libfftw3-dev libgimp2.0-dev

Then get the source code (ok you did this ... but it can't hurt to
start fresh if you have been banging on it:

$ git clone https://github.com/schani/mathmap.git
$ cd mathmap

In 'Makefile', I changed these settings:
THREADED = -DTHREADED_FINAL_RENDER
PREFIX = /usr/local

And then, build the auxilliary stuff:

$ git submodule update --init --recursive
$ make libnoise
$ make

Oi! Got some errors due to recent incompatible (for shame!) libgsl and
libgif changes. So, I made this change in opmacros.h:
-#define ELL_INT_D(phi,k,n) gsl_sf_ellint_D((phi), (k), (n), GSL_PREC_SINGLE)
+#define ELL_INT_D(phi,k,n) gsl_sf_ellint_D((phi), (k), (n))

... and I found this example of how to fix the libgif error:
http://github.com/richardgv/skippy-xd/commit/32d62ffe06b2809625b83846e6b8569a99deeb81
but I am lazy so I just monkeypatched rwimg/rwgif.c to add and ignore
the error code parameter -- see attached patch file. Put it in your
rwimg/ directory and
$ patch -p1 < gif.patch

Then back in the mathmap directory...
$ make
$ sudo make install

Then I started GIMP and had the MathMap plugin!

I hope this gets you running ... if not, I hope it at least gets you
a different error which you can report and I'll try to help again!

Cheers,

Tom

On Wed, Jul 06, 2016 at 11:35:19PM -0700, Dos Santos Mendes Filipe wrote:
> Hi Tom, thank you for the tips. I'm very not familiar with compiling
> sources (not at all really)
>
> And tried to recompile libnoise as you recommended. The result is
> the same when I make MathMap, I get the same error as previously.
>
> As my un derstanding an knowledge are limited, I don't know what to
> do :D Thank you anyways for trying !
>
> I saw some warning compiling libnoise (obsolete constants and so)

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