rpn/GENERATION.md

rpn v2.3 - generation

For now rpn is proposed only for GNU/Linux

It can be generated following the steps below

version identification

rpn is dynamically linked against

• GNU MP v6.1.2
• GNU MPFR v3.1.5

and embeds the source code of linenoise-ng v1.0.1

It is necessary to get MPFR and linenoise-ng to generate rpn.

install GNU MPFR v3.1.5-p8 headers

• download GNU MPFR v3.1.5-p8 from http://www.mpfr.org
• install it with usual autotools commands ./configure && make && make install

install linenoise-ng v1.0.1 source code

• download linenoise-ng v1.0.1 from https://github.com/arangodb/linenoise-ng
• checkout the tag v1.0.1
• apply the following patch to the source code

--- ../../../linenoise-ng/src/linenoise.cpp	2017-06-10 18:13:31.752976287 +0200
+++ linenoise.cpp	2017-06-12 18:54:50.481794824 +0200
@@ -2587,12 +2587,15 @@
 
     // ctrl-I/tab, command completion, needs to be before switch statement
     if (c == ctrlChar('I') && completionCallback) {
+      // rpn #178: enable autocompletion on void entry
+      #if 0
       if (pos == 0)  // SERVER-4967 -- in earlier versions, you could paste
                      // previous output
         continue;    //  back into the shell ... this output may have leading
                      //  tabs.
       // This hack (i.e. what the old code did) prevents command completion
       //  on an empty line but lets users paste text with leading tabs.
+      #endif
 
       killRing.lastAction = KillRing::actionOther;
       historyRecallMostRecent = false;

• install linenoise-ng with cmake commands mkdir build && cd build && cmake .. && make install

generate rpn

• clone rpn project or download a zipped version from the release directory

  # git clone https://github.com/louisrubet/rpn.git
  

• make

  CMake must be installed on the generation machine

  # cd rpn/
  # mkdir build
  # cd build && cmake .. && make
  

• install

  # cd rpn/build
  # sudo make install
  

• packages

  To build RPM package you should install CMake 2.6.0 or higher

  # cd rpn/build
  # sudo make package
  [100%] Built target rpn
  Run CPack packaging tool...
  CPack: Create package using DEB
  (...)
  CPack: Create package using RPM
  (...)
  CPack: Create package using TGZ
  (...)