[clug] Latest version of VICI

[Duncan Roe]

Hi Brendon,

On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 03:17:00PM +1000, linux wrote:
> On Sun, 2018-04-29 at 18:05 +1000, Brenton Ross via linux wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 2018-04-26 at 22:19 +1000, Brenton Ross via linux wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > For those that are interested, today I have placed the latest version of
> > > VICI onto SourceForge:
> > > https://sourceforge.net/projects/ocratato-vici/
> > >
> > > Brenton
> > >
> >
> > OK, Take 2.
> >
> > I have modified the way the build looks for Qt files so that there is
> > now a better chance of it building on various distributions.
> >
> > Thanks very much to those that tried and failed on the previous version
> > - it provided useful information.
> >
> > Brenton
> >
>
> Hmm, apparently that also has a problem. Thanks to Owen for testing and
> reporting the problem.
> I have uploaded a fixed version vici-0.10.682
>
> Brenton
>

After downloading vici-0.10.682 I'm now getting a different failure under
Slackware 14.2:

> checking does moc work?... yes
> checking can I compile moc_myqt.cpp?... configure: error: couldn't compile moc_myqt.cpp
> configure: error: ./configure failed for src/gth

Looking at src/gth/config.log I see:

> configure:4844: checking can I compile moc_myqt.cpp?
> configure:4847: g++ -c -g -O2 -fPIC  -DQT_WIDGETS_LIB -DQT_GUI_LIB -DQT_CORE_LIB -DQT_TESTLIB_LIB -I/usr/include -I/usr/include/qt5/QtWidgets -I/usr/include/qt5 -I/usr/include/qt5/QtGui -I/usr/include/qt5 -I/usr/include/qt5/QtTest -I/usr/include/qt5 -I/usr/include/qt5/QtCore -I/usr/include/qt5 -o moc_myqt.o moc_myqt.cpp
> In file included from /usr/include/qt5/QtCore/qglobal.h:83:0,
>                  from /usr/include/qt5/QtCore/qnamespace.h:43,
>                  from /usr/include/qt5/QtCore/qobjectdefs.h:48,
>                  from /usr/include/qt5/QtCore/qobject.h:46,
>                  from /usr/include/qt5/QtCore/QObject:1,
>                  from myqt.h:1,
>                  from moc_myqt.cpp:9:
> /usr/include/qt5/QtCore/qcompilerdetection.h:562:6: error: #error Qt requires a C++11 compiler and yours does not seem to be that.
>  #    error Qt requires a C++11 compiler and yours does not seem to be that.

although earlier on, ./configure seemed satisfied with the gcc version (from
./config.log):

> configure:3456: checking for C compiler version
> configure:3465: gcc --version >&5
> gcc (GCC) 5.3.0
> Copyright (C) 2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
> warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

I built Qt5 from source with this compiler.

Cheers ... Duncan.