[PFH]

Hallo Kondor,

as the log file told us some time ago the momentary problem is nothing more than that the Makefile in /trunk/3rd/qt/4.5.2/qt-all-opensource-src-4.5.2 is missing
gmake[3]: Entering directory `..../trunk/3rd/qt/4.5.2/qt-all-opensource-src-4.5.2'
gmake[3]: Makefile: No such file or directory
gmake[3]: *** No rule to make target `Makefile'. Stop.
gmake[3]: Leaving directory `...../trunk/3rd/qt/4.5.2/qt-all-opensource-src-4.5.2'

For what it's worth my OS is 32 bit Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty and the steps to build Serna were to follow the Syntext instructions, i.e. download the packages from your website including those for trunk/3rd and follow the make/install steps.

I would love to be able to help you more than this but what I have done nothing is exactly what you instruct.
Wouldn't it be easiest to simply believe the log file and myself that there is no Makefile in /trunk/3rd/qt/4.5.2/qt-all-opensource-src-4.5.2 and ensure that one is provided?

[Gluke]

Hi, I think that this is not that easy - I have MS Windows, but IMHO the build is following the same principles. So I have this Make file in the qt-all-opensource-4.5.2 folder; and its head says that this file is generated my qmake. So there is something else that prevents a generation of this file. IMHO.

[kondor]

PFH,

I have managed to find a root of the problem: missing package. It seems that the instruction you followed on is slightly incomplete. To solve this issue you should install libxext-dev package.

[PFH]

ranlib /.../trunk/build/sfworks/lib/liburimgr.a
gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/.../trunk/build/sfworks/urimgr'
gmake -C xpath -j2 -f GNUmakefile
gmake[2]: Entering directory `/.../trunk/build/sfworks/xpath'
/.../trunk/3rd/bin/python /.../trunk/tools/msggen/msggen.py -H -M xpath /.../trunk/build/sfworks/xpath/XpathMessages.h /.../trunk/sfworks/xpath/impl3/XpathMessages.msg
/.../trunk/3rd/bin/python /.../trunk/tools/msggen/msggen.py -C -M xpath /.../trunk/build/sfworks/xpath/XpathMessages.cpp /.../trunk/sfworks/xpath/impl3/XpathMessages.msg
/.../trunk/3rd/bin/python /.../trunk/tools/buildsys/buildno.py /.../trunk/sfworks/xpath buildrev.txt buildrev.hpp
/.../trunk/sfworks/xpath /.../trunk/sfworks/xpath
bison /.../trunk/sfworks/xpath/impl3/xpathParser.y
gmake[2]: bison: Command not found
gmake[2]: *** [xpathParser.cpp] Error 127
gmake[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/.../trunk/build/sfworks/xpath'
gmake[1]: *** [xpath] Error 2
gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/.../trunk/build/sfworks'
make: *** [sfworks] Error 2

[kondor]

Originally Posted by PFH

gmake[2]: bison: Command not found

it writes what is missing.

sudo apt-get install bison

[PFH]

Hallo Kondor,

the next error message follows. It appears not to be a package issue since a package named lXmu is unknown to apt/synaptic.

g++ -L/home/.../trunk/3rd/lib -L/home/.../trunk/3rd/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib `cat objects.lst` -Wl,--version-script=exports.lst -Wl,-export-dynamic -o /home/.../trunk/build/serna/bin/serna obj/main.o obj/buildver.o -L/usr/local/lib -lQtGui -lQtCore -lQt3Support -lQtXml -lQtNetwork -lQtSvg -lQtAssistantClient -lsp -lqtpropertybrowser -lqscintilla2 -lantlr -lXmu -lICE -lSM -lXext -lX11 -lfreetype -lXft -lXinerama -ldl -lutil -lpthread
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lXmu
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
gmake[2]: *** [/home/.../trunk/build/serna/bin/serna] Error 1
gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/home/.../trunk/build/serna/app'
gmake[1]: *** [app] Error 2
gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/home/.../trunk/build/serna'
make: *** [serna] Error 2

[kondor]

Originally Posted by PFH

Hallo Kondor,

the next error message follows. It appears not to be a package issue since a package named lXmu is unknown to apt/synaptic.

http://blog.syntext.com/2009/08/buil...x-in-10-steps/ -- step #7 contains the list of packages to install. For this case: libxmu-dev.

// Congrats! You are close to have successfully built Serna.

[kondor]

Originally Posted by PFH

the next error message follows. It appears not to be a package issue since a package named lXmu is unknown to apt/synaptic.

/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lXmu

The hint just in a case: ``-l'' here means library, so the name of it is 'xmu'. Hence to find it in the apt/synaptic you should add prefix ``lib'': libxmu.

[PFH]

Hallo Kondor,

here is the next error situation + a few reflections of mine after weeks of unsuccessfully trying to build Serna Open Source.

as you can see -lfreetype is missing and apt can't find it either.
But Synaptic tells me that libfreetype6 is installed.
Synaptic also says that there is libfreetype6-dev available.
It seems possible that libfreetype6-dev might do the trick.

But to test this possibility the whole build process has to be run through again, a process which takes hours.
So what do we have after weeks of trying to get the OpenSource to build?
1. No built-in check that all software pre-requirements have been met. This - like all other Open Source projects that I know - must be AT THE START of the build process.
2. The alternative would be a list of requirements, but there isn't one.
Put simply - the user has no way of checking what is missing till the build process hits that 'mine'.
3. The build process doesn't know what it built the last time and keeps starting from scratch which makes the build process extremely long.

I welcomed Syntext's decision to go Open Source and have in the meanwhile spent many hours trying to get it to work.
It now has to be said that Serna's implication that Serna Open Source is child's play isn't true at this stage. The Serna Open Source is just not ripe yet.

Here is the most recent error:

g++ -L/home/.../trunk/3rd/lib -L/home/.../trunk/3rd/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib `cat objects.lst` -Wl,--version-script=exports.lst -Wl,-export-dynamic -o /home/.../trunk/build/serna/bin/serna obj/main.o obj/buildver.o -L/usr/local/lib -lQtGui -lQtCore -lQt3Support -lQtXml -lQtNetwork -lQtSvg -lQtAssistantClient -lsp -lqtpropertybrowser -lqscintilla2 -lantlr -lXmu -lICE -lSM -lXext -lX11 -lfreetype -lXft -lXinerama -ldl -lutil -lpthread
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lfreetype
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
gmake[2]: *** [/home/.../trunk/build/serna/bin/serna] Error 1
gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/home/.../trunk/build/serna/app'
gmake[1]: *** [app] Error 2
gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/home/.../trunk/build/serna'
make: *** [serna] Error 2
...@Laptop01:~/trunk$ sudo apt-get install libfreetype
[sudo] password for ...:
...@Laptop01:~/trunk$ sudo apt-get install libfreetype
[sudo] password for ...:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package libfreetype

[kondor]

Originally Posted by PFH

But to test this possibility the whole build process has to be run through again, a process which takes hours.
...
1.
2.
3.

The answer is: build system for Serna Free sucks. And I totally agree with you. That's why contribution of the community is very important for us.

Originally Posted by PFH

It now has to be said that Serna's implication that Serna Open Source is child's play isn't true at this stage. The Serna Open Source is just not ripe yet.

Believe me you are wrong.

Originally Posted by PFH

g++ -L/home/.../trunk/3rd/lib -L/home/.../trunk/3rd/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib `cat objects.lst` -Wl,--version-script=exports.lst -Wl,-export-dynamic -o /home/.../trunk/build/serna/bin/serna obj/main.o obj/buildver.o -L/usr/local/lib -lQtGui -lQtCore -lQt3Support -lQtXml -lQtNetwork -lQtSvg -lQtAssistantClient -lsp -lqtpropertybrowser -lqscintilla2 -lantlr -lXmu -lICE -lSM -lXext -lX11 -lfreetype -lXft -lXinerama -ldl -lutil -lpthread
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lfreetype

Originally Posted by PFH

Synaptic also says that there is libfreetype6-dev available.
It seems possible that libfreetype6-dev might do the trick.