[Qgis-developer] Re: [QGIS Commit] r12166 - in trunk/qgis: . doc

[John C. Tull]

William,

Thanks for sweeping up the crumbs I left behind. Unfortunately, you and I were both working on the t2t file this evening. I have some new comments to add about the latest qt-4.6 release candidate and Snow Leopard. The 64-bit cocoa qt seems to mostly work, clearing up the major issues that were plaguing the beta qt-4.6-cocoa. 

I still cannot figure out how to get the sip bindings working when using any variant of qt-carbon (32-bit) on Snow. I was wondering how you managed to make it work for the xcode project build. I saw some posts you had a month or so back on this issue, but I could not decipher the fix. Perhaps it only relates to xcode anyway.

The gsl stuff I hijacked from this post. Is there a better approach for specifying one or the other? CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS?

I wondered about the mkspec stuff, but did see the note you mentioned. Good riddance.

You are probably correct on the -mxx flags. That was a shot in the dark on trying to get sip bindings working in 32-bit. If you did not already, I will pull those.

llvm - you are probably right on this as well. We will keep llvm out of the picture.

Thanks for keeping a close eye on things. I am going to add some of my contextual comments, and I will send my t2t file to you, William, for review and committing if it makes sense.

Cheers,
John

On Nov 17, 2009, at 8:11 PM, William Kyngesburye wrote:

> I made a few corrections to this - I was going to do some updates to it soon anyways, you beat me to it ;)  The copy on the wiki seems to be based on some other version of the document, and the trunk diff seems to be from something else, and both contain changes I remember making... odd.
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> A couple notes about the corrections:
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> - GSL - the --build configure flag does not set OSX arch flags, this is more for cross-compiling.  Using i386 or x86_64 here will mis-identify the system as a generic PC linux and very likely get some OSX-specific compilation and linking flags wrong.
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> - Qt - top of doc says Qt >= 4.3, so mkspec hacks not needed.
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> - Qgis 32 vs 64bit configuration - I don't know about the -m32 and -m64 flags.  The way I've done it is adding the standard arch flags.
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> - llvm - though it's said to be compatible with GCC compilation, that's "mostly", and Qt 4.5 has a mac-llvm spec, I don't know how that's recognized in configuration, I'd rather see more testing before letting it loose on the casual user.
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> Tim: I don't know how to generate the INSTALL file and wiki installation doc from INSTALL.t2t.  Instructions somewhere?
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> 
> PS. I hope to work on cmake configuration of the Xcode project soon.  I was stalled by a HD crash this spring where I lost work in progress.  I hate redoing things.
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> On Nov 17, 2009, at 4:12 PM, svn_qgis at osgeo.org wrote:
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>> Author: timlinux
>> Date: 2009-11-17 17:12:33 -0500 (Tue, 17 Nov 2009)
>> New Revision: 12166
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>> Modified:
>>  trunk/qgis/INSTALL
>>  trunk/qgis/doc/INSTALL.t2t
>> Log:
>> Applied updates from John Tull to INSTALL documentation for Snow Leopard
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