[bt-devel] bt-devel Digest, Vol 52, Issue 11

Thu Aug 28 14:10:19 MST 2008

2008/8/28 Dylon Edwards <integr8e at gmail.com>:
> I haven't been able to compile BT on 64-bit Kubuntu, 64-bit Sabayon, or
> 64-bit Arch Linux.  Could it be an x86-64 issue?  I'll try compiling it from
> a 32-bit chroot when I get home and update you on its progress.

I compiled it on x86-64 Ubuntu fine, so it's not that.  What are your
problems/error?

--Greg

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>>   1. the beta release; my problems with distros and compiling
>>      (Eeli Kaikkonen)
>>   2. Re: the beta release;     my problems with distros and compiling
>>      (Greg Hellings)
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>> Message: 1
>> Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:12:08 +0300 (EEST)
>> From: Eeli Kaikkonen <eekaikko at mail.student.oulu.fi>
>> Subject: [bt-devel] the beta release; my problems with distros and
>>        compiling
>> To: bt-devel at crosswire.org
>> Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0808272255300.23983 at paju.oulu.fi>
>> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
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>> Thanks, Martin, for making the decision of releasing the beta. I feel
>> more relaxed now because I don't have to rush with coding. Between some
>> difficulties and good moments of my personal life which have kept me
>> busy I have tried to set up the new computer.
>>
>> I got Kubuntu installed but didn't get compiling working. cmake gave an
>> error with Qt: it seems to have been compiled with wrong switches. I
>> havent' found any help by googling and don't know if I just have
>> something wrong or if Kubuntu (64-bit) really has broken packages. Also
>> clucene was problematic. I don't know why because it has worked with my
>> old computer and Kubuntu.
>>
>> I tried also OpenSuSe but didn't find packages needed for development.
>> Does someone know if there are sword development headers and other
>> dependencies packaged? Is there any distro which would have all the
>> packages that I could just install them and continue with coding? I
>> would rather install a new distro than try to get all libraries working
>> manually.
>>
>>  Yours,
>>        Eeli Kaikkonen (Mr.), Oulu, Finland
>>        e-mail: eekaikko at mailx.studentx.oulux.fix (with no x)
>>
>>
>>
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>> Message: 2
>> Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:10:15 -0500
>> From: "Greg Hellings" <greg.hellings at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: [bt-devel] the beta release;       my problems with distros
>> and
>>        compiling
>> To: "BibleTime development" <bt-devel at crosswire.org>
>> Message-ID:
>>        <75a952c00808271410v341b3101r5bb416c8f7cb4ceb at mail.gmail.com>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
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>> Eeli,
>>
>> Here in Ubuntu 64-bit, we're still working with the tastefully named
>> libsword6 and libsword6-dev (which is version 1.5.9 build 8... if you
>> can find the 6 in there, let me know).  I don't know what version the
>> current Bibletime beta expects, but I would imagine it's at least
>> 1.5.11, and possibly the current SVN.  That's as likely to be a
>> problem with the building as the Qt versions.
>>
>> Also, the current version of libqt4 on the standard Ubuntu is 4.3.4.
>> If BT really does rely on Qt 4.4, and the Qt versions are in sync
>> between Ubuntu and Kubuntu, then your problem could just as easily lie
>> in that realm.  It's been forever since I did anything with SuSe, so I
>> can't even begin to talk about that.
>>
>> It might be something for the package maintainers to think about.  I
>> don't know what 8.10 is planning to contain as far as Qt versions, but
>> I sure hope that it has a better outlook on the libsword versions.
>>
>> --Greg
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 3:12 PM, Eeli Kaikkonen
>> <eekaikko at mail.student.oulu.fi> wrote:
>> > Thanks, Martin, for making the decision of releasing the beta. I feel
>> > more relaxed now because I don't have to rush with coding. Between some
>> > difficulties and good moments of my personal life which have kept me
>> > busy I have tried to set up the new computer.
>> >
>> > I got Kubuntu installed but didn't get compiling working. cmake gave an
>> > error with Qt: it seems to have been compiled with wrong switches. I
>> > havent' found any help by googling and don't know if I just have
>> > something wrong or if Kubuntu (64-bit) really has broken packages. Also
>> > clucene was problematic. I don't know why because it has worked with my
>> > old computer and Kubuntu.
>> >
>> > I tried also OpenSuSe but didn't find packages needed for development.
>> > Does someone know if there are sword development headers and other
>> > dependencies packaged? Is there any distro which would have all the
>> > packages that I could just install them and continue with coding? I
>> > would rather install a new distro than try to get all libraries working
>> > manually.
>> >
>> >  Yours,
>> >        Eeli Kaikkonen (Mr.), Oulu, Finland
>> >        e-mail: eekaikko at mailx.studentx.oulux.fix (with no x)
>> >
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