[bt-devel] Problem compiling Bibletime from CVS (and the workaround...)

[Joachim Ansorg]

Stephen,
thank you for reporting this.

This should be fixed now, so CVS hopefully compiles again :)

Joachim

> Hello, Everyone
> I first noticed this a few months ago, but now I am FINALLY getting
> around to mentioning it.
> I first discovered this issue when compiling Bibletime from CVS.  The
> first error that "make" would bail on looked (and still looks) like
> this:
>
> In file included from bt_gbfhtml.cpp:17:
> bt_gbfhtml.h:19:25: error: cfiltertool.h: No such file or directory
>
> I checked my checkout of the Bibletime code, and sure enough, there was
> no cfiltertool.h file to be found.  So I browsed the CVS tree to the
> following location:
> http://bibletime.cvs.sourceforge.net/bibletime/bibletime/bibletime/backend/
>
> As you already know, the file doesn't exist there anymore, either.  I
> saw this link in the above referred to directory:
>
> (Show 20 dead files)
> http://bibletime.cvs.sourceforge.net/bibletime/bibletime/bibletime/backend/
>?hideattic=0
>
> Of course, this showed me that the "offending" file was dead.  Okay, no
> problem.  I opened the file referred to in the above quoted error
> message:
>
> bibletime/bibletime/backend/bt_gbfhtml.h
>
> In that file, I found these lines:
> //Backend
> #include "cfiltertool.h"
>
> To make a long story short, I found those (or VERY similar) line(s) in
> the following files:
> bibletime/bibletime/backend/bt_gbfhtml.h
> bibletime/bibletime/backend/bt_osishtml.h
> bibletime/bibletime/backend/bt_plainhtml.h
> bibletime/bibletime/backend/bt_thmlhtml.h
>
> Of course, when I delete the appropriate lines in the above four files,
> then Bibletime compiles perfectly.  In fact, I'm going to try it again
> right now...  While I wait, I must mention that I have had the above
> workaround work on every occasion that I have tried it (at least two or
> three times with completely fresh downloads of Bibletime from CVS in
> each case)  If Bibletime won't compile this time, I trust that it is a
> different issue :)
>
> Well, Bibletime made it past the error messages like the one quoted
> above.  Since I need to move on and get to bed, I will just trust that
> Bibletime will compile for me.  If it bails for a different reason,
> I'll let you know.
>
> Steven P. Ulrick