Bug#457075: Salomé packaging

[Andre Espaze <andre.espaze@logilab.fr>]

Hi Adam,

> Hi everyone and apologies for the long delay since I last wrote.
No problem, I was also busy on others projects but I am back 
on Salomé for this week and I should work full time on it 
for the week starting on the 19th of april.
> 
> I've been getting VirtualBox to work, as suggested by Sylvestre (thanks
> again!).  I spent a while trying to get shared folders to work, then
> realized just this morning that I could just download stuff from the
> net, so I finally have a pure unstable environment to (try to) run
> Salomé.
> 
> André, I'm having trouble running version 5.1.3-4 from
> http://lyre.mit.edu/~powell/salome/ -- I get the same error as with more
> recent versions: "Study server is not found".  Are you setting some
> environment variables to make it work?
In fact I did not run an installed version because my system could not
build the binary packages due to a lack of memory. That is one of the
reason why I work now in a virtual machine on a dedicated server.
For using the 5.1.3-4, I simply ran:

    ./debian/rules install

and then I have started Salome from the debian/tmp/usr directory by 
ajusting the environment variables as you did in runSalome. Would you
be interested if I run a build of the 5.1.3-4 again? I could try to
find back every step.

Concerning the 5.1.3-5, I can not start Salomé from debian/tmp/usr. The
funny point is that I can run Salomé when compiling it by hand in a
dedicated directory. An identified problem was the line:

    chmod -x $(CURDIR)/debian/tmp/usr/lib/python2.5/*-packages/salome/*

however I still get the 'Study server is not found' error at startup. I
have reached a point where I am comparing the configuration steps,
I hope to identify the problem soon.

Best regards,

André