[Solved] Maitreya's dream AUR Package

Question

Hi all - first off, I didn't know where else to ask for help about unsupported software, which is why I am posting in this subforum. I know that I might need to ask the author of the program about this, but just in case someone here could help out on this....
I am trying to install a software called Maitreya's Dream. The program requires wxwidgets for successful compilation. For that I installed wxgtk from extra. It also needs a special font, for which I have copied the needed font into the /usr/share/fonts/TTF and done a fc-cache -f -v. The installation instructions were...
./configure
make
and to start the program by going to src/gui and typing
./maitreya
Though ./configure and make seemed to go without problems, i could not start the program after cding to src/gui and trying ./maitreya - instead I got this error.
Fatal Error: stat failed, errno is 2.
I googled and found this in the Ubuntu forums. according to this page i got that error because wxwidgets(wxgtk) does not have unicode.
But how can I find out whether the extra wxgtk package has unicode support or not...?
I would really like to get this software working because it would remove the last need for me to have wine installed on my Arch64 system.
thanks for any replies.
Last edited by jaydoc (2009-05-03 20:39:48)

Answer 1

ok seems like i fixed it. this pkgbuild works for me on x86_64:
PKGBUILD
pkgname=maitreya
pkgver=5.0.1
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="A free software for Vedic and western astrology"
arch=(i686 x86_64)
license=('Artistic')
url="http://www.saravali.de/maitreya/index.html"
depends=('wxgtk')
source=(http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/$pkgname/$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.bz2)
install=maitreya.install
build() {
cd $startdir/src/$pkgname-$pkgver
#fix symbolic link creation
sed -i "s#\${prefix}/maitreya/maitreya#${pkgdir}/usr/maitreya/maitreya#g" Makefile.am || return 1
sed -i "s#/usr/local/bin#${pkgdir}/usr/bin#g" Makefile.am || return 1
#create directory for symbolic link
mkdir -p $pkgdir/usr/bin/
#configure && make
./configure --prefix=/usr
make || return 1
make DESTDIR=$startdir/pkg install || return 1
#move font
mkdir -p $pkgdir/usr/share/fonts/truetype
mv $pkgdir/usr/maitreya/fonts/MaitreyaSymbols.ttf $pkgdir/usr/share/fonts/truetype/
maitreya.install
# arg 1: the new package version
post_install() {
/usr/bin/fc-cache -f -v
# arg 1: the new package version
# arg 2: the old package version
post_upgrade() {
post_install $1
op=$1
shift
$op $*
to install, save the code fragments in a directory as PKGBUILD and maitreya.install and run "makepkg -cis".
if i'm doing something stupid in the PKGBUILD please tell me
edit: added to AUR http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=26194
if somebody that actually uses this would like to maintain the package just tell me and i'll orphan it
Last edited by schuay (2009-05-03 13:01:18)