Install script hangs on Linux

[dinkelk]

Hi there,

I am trying to use this script on a 18.04 Ubuntu machine and when I run it, the program just hangs.

$ sh -x ./install_package.sh ../gnat-community-2018-20180524-arm-elf-linux64-bin ../../gnat/gnat-community-2018-20180524-arm-elf-linux64
+ dirname ./install_package.sh
+ script_dir=.
+ [ 2 -ne 2 ]
+ package_file=../gnat-community-2018-20180524-arm-elf-linux64-bin
+ target=../../gnat_old/gnat-community-2018-20180524-arm-elf-linux64-bin
+ [ -f ../../gnat_old/gnat-community-2018-20180524-arm-elf-linux64-bin ]
+ [ -d ../../gnat_old/gnat-community-2018-20180524-arm-elf-linux64-bin ]
+ ls -A ../../gnat_old/gnat-community-2018-20180524-arm-elf-linux64-bin
+ ls=
+ [ ! -z  ]
+ uname
+ install_linux
+ chmod +x ../gnat-community-2018-20180524-arm-elf-linux64-bin
+ ../gnat-community-2018-20180524-arm-elf-linux64-bin --script ./install_script.qs --platform minimal InstallPrefix=../../gnat/gnat-community-2018-20180524-arm-elf-linux64

Trying to run the hanging line manually with the -v option produces:

../gnat-community-2018-20180524-arm-elf-linux64-bin -v --script ./install_script.qs --platform minimal InstallPrefix=../../gnat/gnat-community-2018-20180524-arm-elf-linux64
IFW Version: 3.0.2, built with Qt 5.9.0.
Build date: Nov 23 2017
Installer Framework SHA1: a97afeb
[0] Language: en-US
[0] Arguments: ../gnat-community-2018-20180524-arm-elf-linux64-bin, -v, --script, ./install_script.qs, InstallPrefix=../../gnat_old/gnat-community-2018-20180524-arm-elf-linux64
[0] Operations sanity check succeeded.
[0] Resource tree:
[0]      :/translations
[0]      :/translations/da.qm
[0]      :/translations/de.qm
[0]      :/translations/en.qm
[0]      :/translations/es.qm
[0]      :/translations/fr.qm
[0]      :/translations/ja.qm
[0]      :/translations/it.qm
[0]      :/translations/pl.qm
[0]      :/translations/ru.qm
[0]      :/translations/qt_da.qm
[1]      :/translations/qt_de.qm
[1]      :/translations/qt_en.qm
[1]      :/translations/qt_es.qm
[1]      :/translations/qt_fr.qm
[1]      :/translations/qt_ja.qm
[1]      :/translations/qt_it.qm
[1]      :/translations/qt_pl.qm
[1]      :/translations/qt_ru.qm
[1]      :/translations/zh_CN.qm
[1]      :/translations/qt_zh_CN.qm
[1]      :/uninstall.png
[1]      :/installer.png
[1]      :/installer.ico
[1]      :/keepinstalled.png
[1]      :/installer.icns
[1]      :/install.png
[1]      :/keepuninstalled.png
[4]      :/metadata
[4]      :/metadata/com.adacore.gnat
[4]      :/metadata/com.adacore.gnat/installscript.qs
[4]      :/metadata/config
[4]      :/metadata/config/config-internal.ini
[4]      :/metadata/installer-config
[4]      :/metadata/installer-config/configscript_qs.qs
[4]      :/metadata/installer-config/_fox_a_gnatmail_community_x86_64-linux_installers_install_resources_adacore_banner_bmp.bmp
[4]      :/metadata/installer-config/_fox_a_gnatmail_community_x86_64-linux_installers_install_resources_community_banner_png.png
[4]      :/metadata/installer-config/_fox_a_gnatmail_community_x86_64-linux_installers_install_resources_adacore_installer.png
[4]      :/metadata/installer-config/config.xml
[4]      :/metadata/com.adacore
[4]      :/metadata/com.adacore/community_agreement_text.txt
[4]      :/metadata/com.adacore/installscript.qs
[4]      :/metadata/com.adacore/registerfileextensionsform.ui
[4]      :/metadata/Updates.xml
[4]      :/metadata/rccprojectw19950.qrc
[31] Loaded control script "./install_script.qs"
[32] Using control script: "./install_script.qs"
[38] Url is: "://metadata/"

and then hangs indefinitely.

Any help would be appreciated!

[setton]

Try removing

--platform minimal

to see where the installer hangs?

[reznikmm]

Ensure you have make installed.

Here is the command line that I use to install dependencies while building a docker image

RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y \
 libx11-6 \
 libx11-xcb1 \
 fontconfig \
 dbus \
 curl \
 make \
 libc-dev

[dinkelk]

Thank you for the suggestions. Running without --platform minimal, I was able to see the following error.

The installation path cannot be relative, please specify an absolute path.

So I fixed my command so that I provided an absolute path and everything went swimmingly.

Maybe you should convert the InstallPrefix to an absolute path before passing it to the installer, or maybe just check the prefix and warn the user if they provide a relative path instead of an absolute one.

I'll let you close the issue in case you want to take action first.

Thank you!

[setton]

Thank you for the feedback! We'll fix this. Keeping the issue open until such a time that it is done :)