Did you rely in the wrong thread? Edbrowse needs the SpiderMonkey JavaScript interpreter. It doesn't need Java at all AFAIK. -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis On 7/29/07, Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > gcj if it's installed on debian won't work. What may start working and > get you the rest of the way home is installing all of the java stuff from > sun. you'll need the sdk and rtk and I suspect java access bridge for > linux too at a minimum. > > > > On Sun, 1 Jul 2007, Martin McCormick wrote: > > > I thought for a while I might get edbrowse-3.2.1 to build since > > the README file mentions Debian, but I think we are running in > > to the thing I call the orphan syndrome. So much stuff has > > changed since the code was written that it is hard to find what > > you need to safely build it. > > > > On my Debian system, I needed to install libpcre-ocaml-dev > > to get libpcre-development functionality. You can't really find > > a libpcre package as such, but the one I did install quieted > > things down and solved the first missing library problem. Then, > > I hit the wall. > > > > jsdom.c:13:19: jsapi.h: No such file or directory > > > > It gets a lot worse from there. > > > > I did manage to get the Mozzilla javascript library > > mentioned in the edbrowse README file. The link to it is no good > > any longer, but a google search turned up the fact that it is > > still on the Mozzilla site but in a different directory. > > > > I got it and followed the directions in README which read: > > > >> Expand this in /usr/local. > >> It will create a directory js. > >> Go into js/src and run > >> gmake -f Makefile.ref > > > > Another buzzer! gmake doesn't exist so I just tried make. > > > >> This should build everything you need. > > > > Well, it kind of looked okay in that there were no > > errors. > > > >> cd Linux_All_DBG.OBJ > >> ln -s `pwd`/libjs.so /usr/lib/libsmjs.so > > > > that's where I chickened out because there is already a file by > > that mane. I had installed spidermonkey which is a Debian > > package when building elinks so it is really there already and I > > think that edbrowse found it since the first errors seem to be > > related to things that aren't as they should be according to > > what edbrowse is expecting. If I change the link, this will > > more than likely break elinks next time it runs. > > > > > > Anyway, that's the health of edbrowse at this location. > > It looks like a pretty neat thing if it can build. > > > > Martin McCormick > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list mailing list > > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list