gEDA-user: Installer suddenly dying on Mandriva 2007.0

[Al Hooton <al@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

	This is on a vanilla install of Mandriva 2007.0.  I have looked through
the list archives, the INSTALL information and googled around, but I'm
stuck.  Hopefully somebody here has the answer as to why the installer
just suddenly gives up near the beginning of things.

	I downloaded the gEDA installer ISO about a week ago and burned it to
CD (yes, I just noticed there is a new installer ISO that went up in the
last couple of days, but before I try it I'd like to know if the
following is a known problem or not).  When it gets to the point of
determining that it needs to install readline it asks me for the root
password, waits a couple of seconds, then the installer just disappears.
Here's what I get with both --log and --verbose on the installer command
line:


<installer log>

This is the log window which will display the
spew generated by the installation process



gEDA Installer -- version 20061214,
Copyright (C) 2004 -- 2006 Stuart D. Brorson.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details:
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307,
USA.


First check if I am running as root.

whoami
   al
Checking for various required programs . . .

which gcc
   /usr/bin/gcc

which make
   /usr/bin/make

which gtk-config
   which: no gtk-config in
(/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games:/usr/lib/qt3//bin:/home/al/bin:/usr/lib/qt3//bin)
gtk-config is missing on this machine.
We'll tell the user about that in a minute.

which pkg-config
   /usr/bin/pkg-config
pkg-config version 0.20 found.
pkg-config version found on this system is good.  Great!

find /usr/include /usr/local/include -name 'readline.h' -print | grep
'include/readline/readline.h'
   
We need to install readline.h on this machine.  We'll do that in a
minute.

which gettext
   /bin/gettext

which autopoint
   which: no autopoint in
(/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games:/usr/lib/qt3//bin:/home/al/bin:/usr/lib/qt3//bin)
We need to install autopoint -- a component of the gettext system -- on
this machine.  We'll do that in a minute.

which gdlib-config
   which: no gdlib-config in
(/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games:/usr/lib/qt3//bin:/home/al/bin:/usr/lib/qt3//bin)
We need to install gdlib-config on this machine.  We'll do that in a
minute.

which guile
   /usr/bin/guile

which guile-config
   which: no guile-config in
(/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games:/usr/lib/qt3//bin:/home/al/bin:/usr/lib/qt3//bin)
We need to install guile-config on this machine.  We'll do that in a
minute.

which wx-config
   which: no wx-config in
(/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games:/usr/lib/qt3//bin:/home/al/bin:/usr/lib/qt3//bin)
We need to install wx-config on this machine.  We'll do that in a
minute.

which wish
   /usr/bin/wish
tclsh version 8.4 found.
tclsh version found on this system is good.  Great!


Preparing to install the readline headers. . . . 

Now start process of building and installing readline.h.

I need root in order to execute this command.


    ---  Starting expect session  ---
Sending su
Timeout waiting for password prompt
Spew received up to now: Password:

</installer log>


That's it -- the installer just stops.  Anybody know what's happening?

Thanks!

-Al





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