Opened 6 years ago
Last modified 6 weeks ago
#57350 new defect
qt3 build fails
Reported by: | sgcomp | Owned by: | |
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Priority: | Normal | Milestone: | |
Component: | ports | Version: | 2.5.4 |
Keywords: | Cc: | ||
Port: | qt3 |
Description (last modified by ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt))
When I tried to install xxdiff with port, the following qt3 errors happenned and stopped. Tell me how to solve this issue.
# port install xxdiff ---> Computing dependencies for xxdiff The following dependencies will be installed: qt3 Continue? [Y/n]: Y ---> Building qt3 Error: Failed to build qt3: command execution failed Error: See /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_x11_qt3/qt3/main.log for details. Error: Follow https://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets to report a bug. Error: Processing of port xxdiff failed
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Change History (7)
comment:1 Changed 6 years ago by ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)
Description: | modified (diff) |
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Keywords: | xxdiff qt3 removed |
Port: | qt3 added |
Priority: | High → Normal |
Summary: | Issue of installing xxdiff with port on building qt3 → qt3 build fails |
comment:2 follow-up: 4 Changed 6 years ago by sgcomp
Thanks for your comment. Here I attached "main.log". I see. Now qt3 is very old. I would really like to use xxdiff with qt4 and let me know the version when it will be available.
comment:3 Changed 6 years ago by jmroot (Joshua Root)
It's directly inspecting /usr/include for headers. It could probably be persuaded to look in the SDK one way or another.
comment:4 Changed 6 years ago by ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)
comment:6 Changed 6 weeks ago by dgilman (David Gilman)
qt3 does build on macOS 14! However, this port needs some love and I am not going to attempt to finish it off. Agreed that the way forward should probably be to drop it entirely from the archive.
- need to change
-cups
to-no-cups
in the configure arguments. Not sure how you're supposed to link against libcups now becausecups-config --ldflags
returns nothing, I think it's been folded into other frameworks. However, if you look at upstream's source for qt5/qt6 they are disabling their cups support entirely on macOS. There might be a more elegant fix here to only add the-cups
flag on the older macOS releases where cups was still in /usr/lib. - The stuff about LIBRESOLV in the MacPorts-provided CompileScript.sh: there is no longer a
/usr/lib/libresolv.dylib
either. If you rip out the conditional to have it always link with-lresolv
all the libs build! - Something is up with dynamic linking, the CompileScript.sh sets what looks like a valid
DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH
to point to${worksrcdir}/lib
(home of the newly compiled libraries) but something is still looking in${prefix}
to find them. This happens after all the libs are built and it goes to compile all the extra programs in tools/.
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You could attach the main.log file mentioned in the error message; that would tell us why it failed to build.
But note that qt3 is very old, having been superseded by qt4 and then by qt5. Probably nobody is interested in fixing the ancient qt3 port at this point.
Instead, we should try to move anything that is using qt3 off of that and onto a newer qt. It looks like there is a new version 4 of the xxdiff project now, which uses qt4. We should try to update the port to that version. Ticket #44526 tracks our progress of attempting to do so.