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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>You don’t have to run “make install” and simply run QGIS after “make” :<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>If you cd to QGIS_BUILD_DIR/output/bin/ and run ./qgis<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Cheers<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Saber<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Qgis-developer [mailto:qgis-developer-bounces@lists.osgeo.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>DelazJ<br><b>Sent:</b> 14 December 2016 10:40<br><b>To:</b> qgis-developer<br><b>Subject:</b> [Qgis-developer] Today I almost build QGIS on Linux... but it fails<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Hi,<br><i>Disclaimer</i>: I'm a long-term Windows user who is learning Linux. And I'm not a developer so be patient.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Before I pulled a request to master branch I decided this time to build QGIS and check my changes. I often heard people say "Use Linux; it's so easy to do that". And while a year (or more) ago I completely fail to understand which version of tools I should install to do that on Windows (7 or 8), this time it looks very straightforward.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>I followed instructions at <a href="http://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://raw.githubusercontent.com/qgis/QGIS/master/doc/INSTALL.html" target="_blank">http://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://raw.githubusercontent.com/qgis/QGIS/master/doc/INSTALL.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>(note that it should be updated as there still is:<br>- a section <a href="https://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://raw.githubusercontent.com/qgis/QGIS/master/doc/INSTALL.html#toc4" target="_blank">entitled Qt4</a> while its content is all about Qt5 and, Qt4 has nothing to do with QGIS 3 if I'm not wrong<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>- a section <a href="https://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://raw.github.com/qgis/QGIS/master/doc/INSTALL.html#toc12" target="_blank">entitled Qt5</a> which warns you about using Qt5)<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><br>So, I followed these instructions, regardless Qt4 title:<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>- create the same folders at the same places<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>- run "ccmake .." indicate the $home/apps folder as destination folder for the application (CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX)<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>- run "make"<br>- and then run "make install", showing many lines that point to my apps dir. I get a failure due to right access to some folder (I don't know why). So I run "sudo make install" which went till the end with no failure (that i can see)<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>But when all this finishes tens of minutes later, my home/apps dir remains EMPTY. No QGIS to launch!<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>If someone has an idea where I should investigate thanks very much. Or if you need me provide more information, let me know...<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>Harrissou<o:p></o:p></p></div></div>
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