[Qgis-developer] Troubles with qwtpolar

[Andreas Neumann]

Hi,

Thank you all for you hints. I ended up having to set WITH_QWTPOLAR to 
off. All the other options did not work.

At least I could compile QGIS this way. I don't use GPS on this laptop 
anyway.

Thanks,
Andreas

On 16.08.2015 20:29, Matthias Kuhn wrote:
> Short background:
>
> History:
>   * qwtpolar is used for showing the satellite map on the gps widget
>   * ubuntu, debian (osgeo4w, mac I guess) don't ship qwtpolar packages
>   * therefore qwtpolar source code is shipped with the qgis source code
>   * the qwtpolar source code in the qgis repository is no longer
> compatible with the latest qwt library
>
> Options:
>   * update the qwtpolar source code in the qgis repository
>   * remove the satellite display (that's what's currently done when
> qwtpolar is disabled)
>   * re-implement the satellite display without unpackaged external
> dependencies (I'd love to see somebody do that, e.g. a QML component
> would be great)
>
> Until then: make sure you have an old qwt library ready (qwt < 6.1),
> have a system that ships a recent version of qwtpolar (e.g. Fedora) or
> turn off WITH_QWTPOLAR.
>
> Cheers,
> Matthias
>
> On 08/16/2015 08:11 PM, J.O. Williams wrote:
>> Andreas,
>>
>> I would like to suggest that qwtpolar option be changed to OFF
>> permanently and use the embedded copy exclusively.  I have had trouble
>> with option a couple of times and have tried to install the qwtpolar
>> library.  And have wasted a hour each time trying to reinstall before
>> I remember the change needed. The library  is no longer being
>> maintained and is probably dead code.
>>
>> I also build using Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.
>>
>> TIA
>>
>> J.O. Williams
>>
>> On 08/16/2015 10:01 AM, Andreas Neumann wrote:
>>> Thanks Bas - this seems to work.
>>>
>>> Andreas
>>>
>>> On 16.08.2015 17:39, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote:
>>>> On 16-08-15 17:23, Andreas Neumann wrote:
>>>>> I upgraded a laptop with Ubuntu 15.04 and I can't compile QGIS because
>>>>> of qwtpolar. I tried with internal qwtpolar, but it complains that
>>>>> it is
>>>>> not compatible with qwt6.1 and above (which seems to be the default in
>>>>> Ubuntu 15.04). It also seems like Ubuntu 15.04 doesn't provide a
>>>>> package
>>>>> for qwtpolar, so if I turn internal qwtpolar off it complains that it
>>>>> can't find qwtpolar.
>>>>>
>>>>> What do you recommend to do on Ubuntu 15.04?
>>>> Using the -DWITH_QWTPOLAR=OFF CMake option should be sufficient to
>>>> build
>>>> QGIS with Qwt >= 6.1.
>>>>
>>>> The qwtpolar embedded copy needs to be updated to qwtpolar-1.1 for Qwt
>>>>> = 6.1 support, see:
>>>> http://hub.qgis.org/issues/13156
>>>>
>>>> Kind Regards,
>>>>
>>>> Bas
>>>>
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