Re. subsurface: FTBFS in experimental

[Thiago Macieira]

On Wednesday 26 August 2015 17:40:28 Tomaz Canabrava wrote:
> > I don’t know anything about CentOS, but these days I happen to build
> > subsurface on Macs which only have homebrew which should be much more
> > basic
> > than any Linux distribution package manager. But here, I just have to
> > install a few libraries (namely, quoting from the INSTALL file  asciidoc
> > libzip sqlite cmake libusb pkg-config automake libtool), then, and I admit
> > that is a bit painful, install Qt5 from sources and all the rest
> 
> You don't need to install qt5 from sources anymore ( for quite a while
> actually, I'v fixed that around six months ago )

And why is that?

Because Qt bundles a lot of libraries (statically built into Qt libs and 
plugins).

Example: libxcb.
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