[clug] Latest version of VICI

[Andrew Janke]

I can't speak for Bob but my knee jerk reactions to this are.

1. Old habits...

2. grep syntax highlighting.


A

On Tue, 1 May 2018 19:43 Mike Carden via linux, <linux at lists.samba.org>
wrote:

> Sorry to (slightly) hijack this thread, but...
>
> Bob, why did you add the pipe to grep to your find? You ran:
>
> find . -type f | grep libQt5 | wc
>
> rather than:
>
> find . -type f -name 'libQt5*' | wc
>
> It *feels* like the grep creates one more process than is needed, but I'm
> interested to understand any benefit that I haven't noticed.
>
> --
> MC
>
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, May 1, 2018 at 6:16 PM, Bob Edwards via linux <
> linux at lists.samba.org
> > wrote:
>
> > On 01/05/18 17:28, Brenton Ross via linux wrote:
> >
> >> On Tue, 2018-05-01 at 16:45 +1000, Bob Edwards via linux wrote:
> >>
> >> On 30/04/18 15:17, Brenton Ross via 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
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>> Hi Brenton,
> >>>
> >>> I have finally gotten around to looking at VICI (again - I last had
> >>> a look around 3 or 4 years ago...).
> >>>
> >>> I am building it in a Debian Stretch container, following much of your
> >>> README (from vici-0.10.682).
> >>>
> >>> My command is:
> >>> bob at vici:~/vici-0.10/build$ ../configure --prefix=$VICI
> >>> -with-lua-pkg=lua53
> >>> ...
> >>> checking does moc work?... yes
> >>> checking can I compile moc_myqt.cpp?... yes
> >>> checking can I compile myqt.cpp?... yes
> >>> checking can I link against QT?... configure: error: couldn't link
> >>> configure: error: ../../../src/gth/configure failed for src/gth
> >>> bob at vici:~/vici-0.10/build$
> >>>
> >>> Looks like it can't find QT, but I am not sure what part of QT it is
> >>> looking for (ie. can it tell me what test actually failed?).
> >>>
> >>> Any tips?
> >>>
> >>> cheers,
> >>>
> >>> Bob Edwards.
> >>>
> >>>
> >> Bob,
> >>
> >> thanks for trying.
> >> You seem to have run into the same problem Owen has.
> >>
> >> It appears that Debian based systems have the Qt libraries installed in
> >> the standard location for most libraries which means the -L option
> >> should not be required, but for some reason the linker cannot find them.
> >>
> >> The actual error will be reported in $VICI/build/src/gth/config.log
> >>
> >> Cheers
> >> Brenton
> >>
> >>
> > Hi Brenton,
> >
> > Any idea which one I should be looking for? Looks like I have 31 Qt5
> > libs installed:
> >
> > bob at vici:~$ cd /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
> > bob at vici:/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu$ find . -type f | grep libQt5 | wc
> >      31      31     719
> >
> > (I _think_ they all came from:
> > bob at vici:~$ sudo apt-get install qt5-default )
> >
> > cheers,
> >
> > Bob Edwards.
> >
> >
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