problems compiling subsurface 4.4 on fedora 18

Michele Fabi fabiemme at gmail.com
Tue Feb 17 07:12:31 PST 2015


2015-02-17 16:02 GMT+01:00 Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org>:

>
> On Feb 17, 2015, at 6:38 AM, Michele Fabi <fabiemme at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> But first switch to the v4.4.0 tag, please
>>
>> /D
>
>
> Ok. Done. I noticied that /home/michele/src/marble-build/ does contain
> src/lib/marble but not an include directory.
>
>
> This is funny. In a sad way.
> I always felt that asking people to compile software from source was a no
> win approach.
>
> So once you switched to the v4.4.0 tag as I asked you, you need to
> re-apply the patches
> that Lubomir sent, but I haven’t had a chance to check if those apply to
> v4.4.0 as well.
> If you don’t mind waiting, I’m planning to tag v4.4.1 tonight or maybe
> tomorrow (depending
> on how my day goes, I’m traveling to the Bay Area today) and will include
> Lubomir’s
> patches in that.
>
> The second problem is that it’s a pain in the… to get the marble include
> files to the right
> place. So maybe you could build without Marble (that means you’ll lose the
> globe)? Or,
> time permitting, I’ll include a little script in the Subsurface sources
> for 4.4.1 that automates
> all this and makes it easier for people to build from source.
>
> At this point I’m making binaries for more than a dozen platforms
> available - and this is
> exactly the reason why. Subsurface has become so complex and has so many
> strange
> dependencies that building it from source is indeed non-trivial.
>
> Of course, you could always update to Fedora 20 or 21 and take advantage
> of one of those
> binaries :-)
>
> /D
>
> Thanks for your help Dirk. I have no hurry to use subsurface on this
laptop so I can indifferently wait for a 4.4.1 version or upgrade my
laptop, but I don't want to force the team to write a newer version, if it
isn't already in your roadmap.
It's been very interesting to talk with you guys. I have some new items to
study :)
Michele
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