[Qgis-developer] running qgis from build directory issues

[Etienne Tourigny]

On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 9:15 AM, Martin Dobias <wonder.sk at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Etienne
>
> On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 1:45 PM, Etienne Tourigny
> <etourigny.dev at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I am running qgis from the build directory (says build-debug inside
>> the source folder) with the command ./bin.output/qgis and I run into 2
>> issues.
>>
>> First I get a pop-up window "Python Error" about missing sextante with
>> text below[1].
>> Disabling sextante did not help but uninstalling sextante resolves it.
>> No other plugins complain.
>
> This is partly a problem of Sextante and partly QGIS problem:
> - sextante should not try to do anything in __init__.py (e.g. imports)
> - the imports should be moved into classFactory() so that nothing
> happens unless the plugin is explicitly started. (this problem will go
> away once we stop using metadata from __init__.py and only use them
> from metadata.txt)
> - when QGIS is run from build directory, it doesn't copy the internal
> python plugins to the build output directory - that's why sextante is
> complaining about missing plugin installer. We should probably fix
> that in order to provide an environment that is as similar to the
> installed one as possible
>

ok thanks for the info - would be nice to fix that

>
>> Second when I exit qgis I get a segfault :
>> *** glibc detected *** ./output/bin/qgis: corrupted double-linked
>> list: 0x000000000312e6f0 ***
>> ======= Backtrace: =========
>> [...]
>>
>> gdb backtrace below [2]
>
> Not sure about that, if you are running latest main branch maybe that
> is a side-effect of recent raster refactoring?

doesn't happen if I 'make install' and run the executable in the
install path though

>
> Martin