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X-Plane Scenery Tools: WorldEditor (WED) and more
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Building 'libs' fails on Ubuntu #13

Closed barf closed 4 years ago

barf commented 4 years ago

Hello.

Following the instructions at https://developer.x-plane.com/code/ I am unable to build the 'libs' component of xptools on Ubuntu 20.04 after installing the listed prerequisite packages - with the exception of Qt4 because that's been deprecated (and I want to look into porting WED to Qt5).

Steps to reproduce:

  1. git clone https://github.com/X-Plane/xptools
  2. cd xptools
  3. git submodule update --init
  4. cd libs
  5. make

Output tail:


common.copy /home/barf/X-Plane/libboost_thread.a
...updated 11358 targets...
/bin/sh: 1: cd: can't cd to local/lib
make: *** [Makefile:391: local/lib/.xpt_boost] Error 2```
meikelm commented 4 years ago

We have a working Qt5 port for WED in branch "wed_qt5_dev". But we can't take that into master right now until all dev's and the compile farm have been upgraded to that as well. We might even drop Qt entirely for something less complex. And its pretty easy to install Qt4 in Ubuntu 20.04 - even though its still in pre-alpha state and thus no ready-to-use backport repo is available - I'm pretty sure by the time it gets released all that will be taken care of.

mroe1 commented 4 years ago

We might even drop Qt entirely for something less complex.<

uh oh , i standing by for the less complex part ;)

barf commented 4 years ago

Sorry to post on a closed bug, I was completely mistaken about Qt, but this might be an escaping issue for space characters in the build scripts instead.

It appears to fail to build boost when residing in a directory name "/home/barf/X-Plane 11/xptools".