[Slackbuilds-users] qt5 fails to build on 14.2 stable 64bit

Luveh Keraph 1.41421 at gmail.com
Thu Jun 25 20:47:04 UTC 2020


I always wonder why a GUI toolkit should take one order of magnitude more
to build than the whole of the Linux kernel, with all its bells and
whistles.

On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 1:44 PM Alan Page via SlackBuilds-users <
slackbuilds-users at slackbuilds.org> wrote:

>
>
> On Sunday, 21 June 2020, 20:43:58 BST, Matteo Bernardini <
> matteo.bernardini at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Il giorno dom 21 giu 2020 alle ore 21:32 Alan Page via
>
> SlackBuilds-users <slackbuilds-users at slackbuilds.org> ha scritto:
> >
> > On a freshly installed and updated 64bit full installation of slackware
> 14.2, an attempt to compile qt5 with the Slackbuild files ended with the
> error message:
> >
> > ERROR: Feature 'xcb' was enabled, but the pre-condition 'features.thread
> && features.xkbcommon && libs.xcb' failed.
> >
> >
> > None of the support options were used - I simply ran qt5.SlackBuild with
> no modifications.
> >
> > Help would be much appreciated - I don't have the skills to debug this.
> >
> > Thanks in anticipation
> > Alan
>
>
>  - have you built and installed all of the dependencies before trying to
> build qt5?
>  - they are (in order):
>  - pyhton3
>  - ninja
>  - meson
>  - libxkbcommon
>
>  - the last is listed in the REQUIRES field of the qt5.info file you got
>  - from this repositories, and the other are dependencies of the
>  - dependencies (and so on).
>
>  - Matteo
>
> Many thanks, Matteo
>
> I can't believe I missed that - sorry for the unnecessary post!
>
> After installing the dependencies, qt5 appears to be building just fine -
> the compile has been going for 3 days on an old Pentium D system - another
> day should do it.
>
> Thanks again
> Alan
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