[Qgis-developer] OS X 1.7.4... bomb

[William Kyngesburye]

Haven't solved it yet i QGIS compiles and runs, you just can't open any help.  I'm setting up a spare 10.6 Mac to compile Qt from source so it shouldn't reference anything from 10.7.  Odd that you'd get a 10.7 reference compiling on 10.5, time warp?

On Feb 25, 2012, at 2:25 PM, Marco Hugentobler wrote:

> Hi William
> 
> >Nokia screwed up compiling their "official" binaries. Everything BUT QtWebKit works on OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard).
> >QtWebKit appears to use a OS X 10.7-only system function. This breaks QGIS help and some plugins on OS X 10.6.
> >It's possible it's not really Nokia's fault. I'll have to compile Qt myself and package a new QGIS, but there is a
> >bug in Apple's SDK mechanism that could be the problem.
> 
> I had the same problem trying to compile Qt 4.8 on OS X 10.5.8. QtWebKit does not build (compiler error because of reference to 10.7 function) and QGIS needs Webkit.
> How did you solve the problem? Disable the help menu?
> 
> Regards,
> Marco
> 
> On 25.02.2012 16:24, William Kyngesburye wrote:
>> So I finally packaged QGIS 1.7.4 (I was waiting on a GRASS 6.4.2 problem, but that may take a while).  And...
>> 
>> WARNING #1: serious Qt packaging bug
>> 
>> Nokia screwed up compiling their "official" binaries.  Everything BUT QtWebKit works on OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard).  QtWebKit appears to use a OS X 10.7-only system function.  This breaks QGIS help and some plugins on OS X 10.6.
>> 
>> It's possible it's not really Nokia's fault.  I'll have to compile Qt myself and package a new QGIS, but there is a bug in Apple's SDK mechanism that could be the problem.
>> 
>> WARNING #2: delete existing plugins before running QGIS 1.7.4.  If you can do it before installing QGIS, disable them in the old QGIS, then update and re-enable them one at a time after upgrading QGIS.  If you have already installed 1.7.4, you need to manually delete them from ~/.qgis/python/plugins.
>> 
>> I've had a report of plugins directly using a specific GDAL version like 1.8 (I don't know how this is possible), which will crash QGIS 1.7.4 which uses GDAL 1.9.  There also appears to be a problem with PyQwt so the profile plugin will crash QGIS.
>> 
>> 
>> Sorry for the breakage.  I'll try to fix things as quickly as I can.
>> 
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