[scribus] Failed to compile 1.5 via svn → what am i missing?

[John Brown]

On Sat, 10 Aug 2013 17:07:10 +0200, Thorsten Rochelmeyer wrote:

> Output now says:
>
> thr at thr-x1:~/src/scribus-svn/Scribus$ /usr/bin/cmake .
> -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH=/usr/local/scribus-svn -DWANT_VERSIONING=1
> -- Shared 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.

This message must mean that cmake does not know the name of your C++
compiler. I have not looked at the Scribus build instructions, but shouldn't
your command be:

cmake . -G "Unix Makefiles"  -DCMAKE_INSTALL_...
to tell CMake to generate Unix Makefiles? However, if that does not
help, then try adding -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=g++ to your
cmake command line. I assume that you do, in fact, have g++
on your system.

[snip]

> I also have python installed, but that is not recognized. Python-dev or
> -devel seem to be unavailable.
>
> Any ideas?
>

Try libpython-dev, or libpythonX.Y-dev for a specific version X.Y.

Regards,
John Brown.