[scribus] help compiling 1.3.5svn under Mac 10.5 Intel?

Craig Bradney cbradney at scribus.info
Wed Sep 17 08:44:19 CEST 2008


> Thanks, Pierre and Craig.  I deleted the scribus build I was trying to  
> work with, did the svn check-out thing again, modified those three  
> lines as suggested (took out "ppc;" and changed "10.4u" to "10.5"),  
> and did cmake, make, and make install again.  Your changes caused the  
> whole build process to seemingly go smoothly this time.  (The only  
> hitch was that make install tried to put stuff in /Users/username/ 
> Applications/Scribus.App, so I modified cmake_install.cmake to put  
> things in /Applications/Scribus.App, as I assume was intended.)  But  
> alas, when I try to run Scribus I get an error saying, "You can't open  
> the application 'Scribus.App' because it is not supported on this  
> architecture."

We default to install to the user's Applications directory for system
cleanliness.

You should not have needed to change any lines if you checked out the latest
revision from subversion as it would have set the i386 architecture and
reflected this in the cmake output. Worked ok on my Intel machine last night
(ie, when I did not set -DWANT_UNIVERSALBUNDLE=1 on command line). I may
have to adjust that line regarding the toolkit used, I just don't have a
"clean" Leopard mac to test on right now :(.

> Any ideas?  This seems really weird to me, as the only changes I made  
> were to tell the thing to build on precisely my architecture.
> 
> (There's only one other thing I can think of that I might have screwed  
> up... a way in which I deviated from the official instructions... when  
> running cmake the first time around, it seemed to be wanting "boost"  
> and "aspell".  So I installed them using MacPorts, even though the  
> official Scribus install instructions didn't mention these libraries.   
> Should I not have installed these?)

aspell and boost are optional. Adding aspell and one of the aspell-dict-*
packages will give you spell checking. boost will in turn give you libgeom
and hence the more advanced frame shape manipulation tools. Neither of these
affect your issue.

Craig






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