[Qgis-developer] notes and question on unix section of BuildingFromSource instructions

[icosa atropa]

I'm trying to build 0.9 on ubuntu from source, following
http://wiki.qgis.org/qgiswiki/BuildingFromSource, in hopes of doing my
part in making 0.9 the best qgis ever :)

There appears to be a minor typo in section 5.9.  It looks like this

  cd qgis
  mkdir build
  ccmake ..

should instead be this:

  cd qgis
  mkdir build
  cd build
  ccmake ..

Adding "cmake" to the "sudo apt-get install" list of dependencies in
section 5.4 would make sense, too.

Finally, I have a question.  i'm using feisty, and during dependecy
install I had to make a package substitution with libgdal1.  Apt-get
tells me:

  Package libgdal1-dev is not available, but is referred to by another package.
  This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
  is only available from another source
  However the following packages replace it:
    libgdal1-1.3.2-dev

and again

  E: Couldn't find package libgdal1-grass

so I use libgdal1-1.3.2-grass instead.  No problem, easy going until
compile-time.

  [ 25%] Building CXX object
src/core/CMakeFiles/qgis_core.dir/spatialindex/rtree/Statistics.o
  make[2]: *** No rule to make target
`/build/buildd/gdal-1.3.2/debian/tmp/usr/lib/libgdal1.3.2.so', needed
by  `src/core/libqgis_core.so'.  Stop.
  make[1]: *** [src/core/CMakeFiles/qgis_core.dir/all] Error 2
  make: *** [all] Error 2

I assume, in my limited wisdom, that i need libgdal1.3.2.so, and so I
check, and there it is.  Am I mis-interpreting things?

  $ locate -r 'libgdal.*.so$'
  /usr/lib/libgdal1.3.2.so

Thanks so much for the BuildingFromSource instructions - very clean
and easy-to-follow.

best,
christian gunning
university of new mexico
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