[scribus] Idiot wants to build 1.5.0 from source

[John Jason Jordan]

On Tue, 21 Jun 2011 18:09:18 +1000
"Owen" <rcook at pcug.org.au> dijo:

>> 	Library Flags: -- The CXX compiler identification is unknown
>> CMake Error: your CXX compiler: "CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER-NOTFOUND" was not
>> found.   Please set CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER to a valid compiler path or
>> name.
>
>CXX COMPILER: ... NOT FOUND
>
>Please use your yum install powers to install these two items (I think)
>
>gcc-c++
>gcc
>
>Come back with any other errors that might cause cmake to fail. Note,
>if it says it is missing something, but cmake still finishes, all that
>means is a feature won't be built. Don't worry about that at this
>stage

OK, it's been 24 hours, but now I'm back taking more stabs at this.

I installed gcc-c++ and gcc. I wiped out the folder that the wiki
instructions had me make, and started over from the beginning. To
clarify, these are the instructions from the wiki for building 1.5.0:

mkdir ~/src/
mkdir ~/src/scribus_svn
sudo mkdir /usr/local/scribus_svn
cd ~/src/scribus_svn
svn co svn://scribus.net/trunk/Scribus
cd ./Scribus
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH=/usr/local/scribus_svn
make
sudo "make install"

I started over again from the top, following the above instructions to
the letter, except that I wanted the whole thing in ~/Software/Scribus,
so I modified the paths in the above example.

It all went well until the cmake line. Here are the results:

[root at Devil8 Scribus]# cmake
	-DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH=/usr/local/scribus_svn 
-- Shared Library Flags: -- The C compiler identification is
GNU -- The CXX compiler identification is GNU -- Check for working C
compiler: /usr/bin/gcc -- Check for working C compiler: /usr/bin/gcc --
works -- Detecting C compiler ABI info -- Detecting C compiler ABI info
- done -- Check for working CXX compiler: /usr/bin/c++
-- Check for working CXX compiler: /usr/bin/c++ -- works
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info - done
-- Scribus 1.5.0.svn will be built to install
into /usr/local/scribus_svn -- Machine: x86_64-redhat-linux, void
pointer size: 8 -- Found target X86
-- Found target X86_64
-- Building for target x86_64-redhat-linux
-- Using standard ApplicationDataDir. You can change it with
-DAPPLICATION_DATA_DIR -- Looking for Q_WS_X11
-- Looking for Q_WS_X11 - found
-- Looking for Q_WS_WIN
-- Looking for Q_WS_WIN - not found.
-- Looking for Q_WS_QWS
-- Looking for Q_WS_QWS - not found.
-- Looking for Q_WS_MAC
-- Looking for Q_WS_MAC - not found.
-- Found Qt-Version 4.7.2 (using /usr/bin/qmake-qt4)
Qt QTWEBKIT library not found.
Qt4 Found OK
CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:473 (MESSAGE):
  QtWebKit not found

-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!

So apparently QtWebKit was not installed. I tried installing it, but got
a "no such package" error message. I tried appending -devel, and making
it all lowercase with and without -devel, but the package was still not
available. Finally, acting on a hunch, I opened Yumex and searched on
"qt." This yielded qt-webkit-devel, which I installed. Afterwards the
-DCMAKE line executed without error. Note to cmake: Computers are
literal: Give me the correct name of the package.

Then I ran the make command, which took forever and left my poor little
computer overheated and out of breath. I noted several error messages
like:

/usr/include/QtCore/qbytearray.h: In member function ‘void
ScImgDataLoader_PS::decodeA85(QByteArray&,
QString)’: /usr/include/QtCore/qbytearray.h:452:11: warning: assuming
signed overflow does not occur when assuming that (X - c) > X is always
false 

But I ignored them. Then I ran the "make install" command, but it turns
out the command is not supposed to have the quotes as shown in the wki
page instructions.

Finally it all finished and I think 1.5.0 is installed. However, it did
not create a launcher and I don't know the name of the executable, so I
have no way to run it. From the command line "scribus" just launches
1.3.9. Does anyone know how to run my new Scribus?