Building and installing eloaders / I-Nex for CentOS 7

[alphastar868]

NOTE: This can now be done by building the RPM for the latest commit using the included SPEC file in the package. More details below:

Tested with CentOS 7.1.1503 with I-Nex 7.4.0 commit 3455715 and later

Recommeded: Setup a CentOS Environment for building RPMs; specifically, you will need to create the directories for RPM building _Note:_Step 8 below also accomplishes the same thing.

1. Download the source code using the Download ZIP button on the I-Nex project page Save as ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES/I-Nex-master.zip
2. Save the text for i-nex.spec (below) as ~/rpmbuild/SPECS/i-nex.spec
3. Save the text for i-nex-7.4.0-lib64.patch (below) as ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES/i-nex-7.4.0-lib64.patch This fixes "/usr/bin/i-nex.gambas --library" returns blank on x86_64 arch #11
4. Save the text for i-nex-7.4.0-distro-quotes.patch (below) as ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES/i-nex-7.4.0-distro-quotes.patch This fixes "JSON.ReadObject.123: Comma expected" when starting I-Nex 7.4.0 #10
5. Save the text for i-nex-7.4.0-spd-labelnames.patch (below) as ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES/i-nex-7.4.0-spd-labelnames.patch This fixes "Label261...Label264" displayed on Memory tab instead of SPD info #12
6. Save the text for i-nex-7.4.0-rpm-dpkg.patch (below) as ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES/i-nex-7.4.0-rpm-dpkg.patch This fixes Check button on System tab shows "0 Packages are installed" #14
   • Optional: Follow the instructions at No distribution detection or logo for CentOS #16 to enable distro detection of CentOS on the System tab including i-nex-7.4.0-centos-logo.patch and centos.png.
7. Install gambas3* from the Fedora Rawhide repo and libcpuid11 from brollylssj's Fedora 23 repo
   • See I-Nex/requirements.md for the complete list.
8. Verify that all the RPMs needed as Prerequisites and Required RPMs for Build Environment are installed as per the previous instructions
9. Build the I-Nex for CentOS 7 RPMs with the command: rpmbuild -ba ~/rpmbuild/SPECS/i-nex.spec
10. Install the new RPMs with the command: sudo yum install ~/rpmbuild/RPMS/noarch/i-nex-data-7.4.0-*.el7.centos.noarch.rpm ~/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/i-nex-7.4.0-*.el7.centos.x86_64.rpm

i-nex-7.4.0-lib64.patch

--- I-Nex-master/I-Nex/i-nex/.src/FSystemInfo.class     2015-09-19 17:24:12.000000000 -0400
+++ I-Nex-7.4.0/I-Nex/i-nex/.src/FSystemInfo.class      2015-09-27 11:39:04.000000000 -0400
@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@
   cFile = New Collection

   aText.Add("[Libraries]")
-  For Each sDir In ["/lib", "/usr/lib"]
+  For Each sDir In ["/lib", "/usr/lib", "/lib64", "/usr/lib64"]
     For Each sFile In RDir(sDir, "", gb.File, False).Sort(gb.IgnoreCase)
       sFile = File.Name(sFile)
       For Each sPattern In cSearch

i-nex-7.4.0-distro-quotes.patch

--- I-Nex-master/I-Nex/i-nex/Data/screenfetch-dev       2015-09-19 17:24:12.000000000 -0400
+++ I-Nex-7.4.0/I-Nex/i-nex/Data/screenfetch-dev        2015-09-27 12:41:25.658612840 -0400
@@ -3374,6 +3374,8 @@
 NETTOOLS=$(ifconfig --version 2>&1 | grep tools | awk 'NR==1{print $NF}')
 WIRELESS_TOOLS=$(iwconfig --version 2>&1 | awk '(NR==1 && ($3 == "version")) {print $4}')

+distro=$(echo $distro | sed 's/\"//g')
+
 cat > ~/.i-nex/screenfetch.json <<EOF
 {
   "DE": "$DE",

i-nex-7.4.0-spd-labelnames.patch

--- I-Nex-master/I-Nex/i-nex/.src/MDecode_dimms.module  2015-10-01 05:29:33.781844202 -0400
+++ I-Nex-7.4.0/I-Nex/i-nex/.src/MDecode_dimms.module.new       2015-10-01 05:31:03.277023619 -0400
@@ -15,6 +15,11 @@
  Try Finfosys.ComboBox10.List = Dir("/sys/bus/i2c/drivers/eeprom/", "*-****")
  Try Finfosys.ComboBox10.Index = 0
+
+ If Finfosys.ComboBox10.Count = 0 Then
+  SETNULL()
+  FINALIZE()
+ Endif
 End

Public Sub _inits()

i-nex-7.4.0-rpm-dpkg.patch

--- I-Nex-master/I-Nex/i-nex/.src/Finfosys.class        2015-10-02 10:05:12.512531894 -0400
+++ I-Nex-7.4.0/I-Nex/i-nex/.src/Finfosys.class         2015-10-02 15:26:07.800809195 -0400
@@ -774,7 +774,9 @@

 Public Sub Button7_Click()
   Dim packages As String
+  If Exist("/var/lib/dpkg/status")
   Shell "grep \"^Status: install ok installed\" /var/lib/dpkg/status | wc -l" Wait To packages
+  Endif
   If ChkPrm.ChkExec("rpm") = True And IsNull(packages) = True Then
   Shell "rpm -qa | wc -l" Wait To packages
   Endif

i-nex.spec

See https://github.com/eloaders/I-Nex/blob/master/dists/redhat/i-nex.spec

[eloaders]

I applied patches for Centos: 5813d16

[alphastar868]

Great news - thanks!

Also, the specfile at https://github.com/eloaders/I-Nex/blob/master/dists/i-nex.spec is outdated, and should probably be updated with the info from my updated i-nex.spec (it is .txt only to allow for Github upload here):

i-nex.spec.txt

Also, README.md (Github homepage) should be updated to reflect Gambas 3.8.x changes. And last, but not least, a version bump (7.4.0.1?), to prompt the automated buildsystems and custom repositories that are generating I-Nex packages e.g. OpenSUSE, Fedora Copr, etc.

[alphastar868]

See i-nex.spec for the latest changes to the specfile, and for building new commits (versions) after 5813d16.