As I am not really a guru on slack but neither a noob using it a couple of years . I cant seem to get this compiled ,, I need this to work for a specific part of my job or have to remove slackware from my work computer.

And I would rather die than revert to windows 7 ..

Can some ace guru try and compile and give me a detailed how to ..

I would be internally grateful .

package can be found at http://sgems.sourceforge.net/ and I installed all the dependencies and they seem to be ok ..
No package has ever bowled me over like this

Lawrence

Lawrence,

Can you give us some info on what version of Slackware you're using? Is is 32-bit or 64-bit?

Also, how are you trying to build and install the software?

EDIT: These instructions are for Ubuntu, but a lot of what's there can be used for Slackware.

One tip, try using src2pkg (see the link in my signature) to create a Slackware package.

Regards,

Thanks Drew

I have tried the Ubuntu how to but to no avail .. I have 2 machines here one 32 bit and one 64 bit and the package wont compile on either ,,.. I think I am over thinking it and just want a someone to also try ..

I am installing src2pkg as we speak and would give you a reply on that later .

I am still trying other means aswel

If I can get SAGA http://www.saga-gis.org/ to compile I can use that .. But these 2 programs are my Achilles heel ..

My latest make gave these errors ..

ome/savage/Downloads/SGeMS-2.0/GsTLAppli/utils/directory.h:47: warning: unused parameter 'name'
manager.cpp: In member function 'std::string Manager::finish(std::string&)':
manager.cpp:94: warning: comparison between signed and unsigned integer expressions
manager.cpp:96: error: no matching function for call to 'QString::startsWith(const char*, bool)'
/usr/lib/qt/include/QtCore/qstring.h:231: note: candidates are: bool QString::startsWith(const QString&, Qt::CaseSensitivity) const
/usr/lib/qt/include/QtCore/qstring.h:232: note: bool QString::startsWith(const QLatin1String&, Qt::CaseSensitivity) const
/usr/lib/qt/include/QtCore/qstring.h:233: note: bool QString::sta

this is part of the message ..

regards
Lawrence

Lawrence,

I've been doing a lot of building from source lately for my Linux from Scratch build. I've picked up a few things in that process that might help. Forgive me, in advance, if this stuff is very familiar to you.

I'm going to assume a couple of things:

1) You are going to want to make a Slackware package to install rather than simply running 'make install' and

2) You're willing to do a little bit of scripting.

I think the first thing you need to do is try to capture the errors as early as possible -- it could be that errors during the configure are causing problems with make.

Perhaps you could try manually going through the steps usually performed by a slackbuild script, but log the output with 'tee'. For example:


(For this package, qmake seems to do the same work that configure does with a normal build.)

Then you can search the log for errors.

Do the same thing with make. (make | tee make.log).

Then stop there. Look at the output see if you can see any lines about something not being found, etc.

Based on the errors you posted, it looks like there's a problem with QT4 and how it relates to the package you're trying to build.

Once you figure out the problem, then try:

(Assuming that you've got the various variables set as per the instructions in the link above.)

If that works, then use makepkg to make the Slackware package for you to install.

These packages look pretty awesome. I'm a transportation planner and the GIS manager at my office. I may look a bit more closely at them. I doubt I'll have time to try to build them soon though.

Please keep posting your results. We'd hate for you to have to defect to Windows.

It looks like you are compiling a program that needs QT3 on a system with only QT4 installed.
There is a QT4 branch of GsTLAppli. Make sure that is the one you are compiling or install
QT3 compatibility libs[1] and tell configure where to find QT3.

[1] qt3-3.3.8b-i486-opt1.txz

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