Notes on "Building" on the website..

Linus Torvalds torvalds at linux-foundation.org
Sat Sep 21 11:37:15 UTC 2013


Since I ended up with a clean desktop machine after the recent SSD
failure, I rebuilt everything for subsurface from scratch, including
the development dependencies.

In the process I noticed two buglets on the subsurface build
instructions on the webpage:

 - subsurface itself doesn't need 'libtool', but building libdivecomputer does.

   So I'd suggest adding that to the dependencies required. It's
mentioned in the Mac build instructions, btw.

 - the libdivecomputer instructions on the website says:

    git clone gtk://git.libdivecomputer.org/libdivecomputer

   notice the "gtk" rather than "git". Again, the Mac instructions
actually get this one right.

For the Qt version, you obviously need more. The base README has the
notes on qt/marble/libzip development libraries, but the web
instructions don't. I guess that's fine.

              Linus


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