[scribus] BUILDING and Debian

[Owen]

Yes,

Cmake fails with the debian harfbuzz, as you note, it is missing 
harfbuzz-subset.

All I did was to download the source at 
https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz and built it into /opt for the 
reasons stated.

The Scribus version is shown as 1.5.8.

I did try "make" with the harfbuzz-subset missing, but make failed.

Could not find an option to exclude harfbuzz.

As I no longer have the Ubuntu installation, I cannot comment on what I 
did there.

Interestingly, the CMakeLists.txt has reference to Qt6, so I wonder when 
that is going to happen.


-- 
Owen


On 2021-10-26 18:47, Mattia Rizzolo wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 26, 2021 at 01:25:59PM +1100, Owen wrote:
>> Installed Debian-11.1. The BUILDING states that Scribus "Can't be 
>> built
>> on debian"
>> 
>> The problem would appear to be harfbuzz, the debian repository doesn't
>> have it all.
> 
> Mh, that's not correct though?!
> 
> How do you call this otherwise? https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/harfbuzz
> 
> What is still missing is harfbuzz-subset, which will come with version 
> 3
> of it though.  But it's an optional dependency so "can't be built" is
> surely wrong.
> 
>> So now I have a nice new Scribus 1.5.8.svn (r24748)
> 
> BTW, 1.5.7 is available from the Debian repositories, so unless you
> really have a need for the SVN snapshot you can probably make do with
> that.
> Uh, actually now I remember that Debian 11 only has 1.5.6.1… let me
> upload 1.5.7 to bullseye-backports.
> 
>> Also installed the latest Ubuntu 21.04 or 21.10 then built Scribus on
>> that. No problems at all and guess the Ubuntu repositories have the
>> "full" harfbuzz needed for building.
> 
> Ubuntu has the same harfbuzz that Debian has, fwiw.
> 
>> It really is a very nice program and thanks to all who have made it
>> possible.
> 
> :)
> 
> --
> regards,
> 
-- 

Owen