[Qgis-developer] Today I almost build QGIS on Linux... but it fails

[Saber Razmjooei]

You don’t have to run “make install” and simply run QGIS after “make” :

If you cd to QGIS_BUILD_DIR/output/bin/ and run ./qgis

 

Cheers

Saber

 

 

 

 

From: Qgis-developer [mailto:qgis-developer-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of DelazJ
Sent: 14 December 2016 10:40
To: qgis-developer
Subject: [Qgis-developer] Today I almost build QGIS on Linux... but it fails

 

Hi,
Disclaimer: I'm a long-term Windows user who is learning Linux. And I'm not a developer so be patient.

Before I pulled a request to master branch I decided this time to build QGIS and check my changes. I often heard people say "Use Linux; it's so easy to do that". And while a year (or more) ago I completely fail to understand which version of tools I should install to do that on Windows (7 or 8), this time it looks very straightforward.

I followed instructions at http://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://raw.githubusercontent.com/qgis/QGIS/master/doc/INSTALL.html

(note that it should be updated as there still is:
- a section entitled Qt4 <https://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://raw.githubusercontent.com/qgis/QGIS/master/doc/INSTALL.html#toc4>  while its content is all about Qt5 and, Qt4 has nothing to do with QGIS 3 if I'm not wrong

- a section entitled Qt5 <https://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://raw.github.com/qgis/QGIS/master/doc/INSTALL.html#toc12>  which warns you about using Qt5)


So, I followed these instructions, regardless Qt4 title:

- create the same folders at the same places

- run "ccmake .." indicate the $home/apps folder as destination folder for the application (CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX)

- run "make"
-  and then run "make install", showing many lines that point to my apps dir. I get a failure due to right access to some folder (I don't know why). So I run "sudo make install" which went till the end with no failure (that i can see)

But when all this finishes tens of minutes later, my home/apps dir remains EMPTY. No QGIS to launch!

 

If someone has an idea where I should investigate thanks very much. Or if you need me provide more information, let me know...

 

Thanks,

Harrissou



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