Hi all, I forgot to add some patches to start updating HDF5 with breaking builds. It seems like the patches will need an update to start. - John On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 4:25 PM John Soo wrote: > Hi Bjorn, Jonathon, and everyone, > > FreeCAD was certainly not easy to package. I spent actually several months > just working on the pyside2 dependencies and I still do not have a working > build of Pivy from coin. It is only thanks to the help of the upstream > maintainers that this package is even close to working. I have attached > updated patches and my responses to Bjorn's notes below. Thanks for your > review! > > As to QTWebKit - I do not know why it is a dependency. It may not be a > hard requirement. If you comment it out, I think the configure phase may > succeed. I included it for completion only. > > * FreeCAD Notes > > ** DONE Add commit message details and copyright lines > > ** Coin3D > > *** DONE Delete blobs > > *** hg-fetch deletes .hg dirs (and all submodules' .hg dirs) > > ** SoQT vs. Quarter > > *** Not interchangeable as far as I know. > > *** FreeCAD requires SoQT specifically during configure. > > ** Pyside2 > > *** Does all of pyside2 belong in qt.scm? - there are three packages: > Shiboken2, Pyside2, and Pyside2-Tools > > *** QT version compatibility > > **** The pyside2 project has branches for the newest version with > compatibility with older QT versions (I am using the 5.11.3 compat branch) > > - That is also why I am using a git commit for the Pyside2 packages > - https://code.qt.io/cgit/pyside/pyside-setup.git/ > - Pyside dependencies were by far the most challenging, and I had to > track some issues (of which, some are not resolved) > > ** libmedfile > > *** Reason for old version is that what was released when I started > > *** 4.0.0 requires hdf5 >= 1.10.2 > > **** HDF5 has some dependents: > > guix refresh --list-dependent hdf5 Building the following 11 packages > would ensure 23 dependent packages are rebuilt: > r-ioniser@2.8.0 r-scone@1.8.0 r-lumi@2.36.0 r-yarn@1.10.0 > r-illuminahumanmethylationepicmanifest@0.3.0 r-scdd@1.8.0 pigx@0.0.3 > r-pore@0.24 r-yamss@1.10.0 r-xcms@3.6.1 r-msnid@1.18.0 > > **** HDF5 patches need updates when HDF5 updated to 1.10.5 > > *** DONE Change license to gpl3+ > > ** libarea License questions and source locations: > > **** I am using the source from github: https://github.com/Heeks/libarea > > - Should I use some other source? The google archive is unavailable. > - I cannot find any license information in the github repository. > > **** DONE Change to gpl3+ > > ** Using releases over hg/git downloads (please advise) > > 1. Pyside2 packages - Done for compatibility reasons > 2. Coin3D and SoQt - I don't think there are releases of these aside from > the bitbucket repository. > 3. LLVM propagated packages (llvm-toolchain and pyside-libcxx-headers) > - I am not sure these are the best way to accomplish the goal anyways. > - Not sure where to find the right sources for llvm-toolchain-6 and the > pyside-libcxx-headers. > 4. libarea - Seems like libarea is actually close to not even having > source available anymore, let alone a release > 5. libspnav - Confused as to the best source to use here. If there is a > release or better version, I can update. > 6. FreeCAD > - I can use the releases if they exist. I do not think they have source > tarballs available. > - I was packaging during a lot of active development of FreeCAD > > Thank you for your review and advice. > > - John > > On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 5:57 PM Jonathan Brielmaier < > jonathan.brielmaier@web.de> wrote: > >> Thanks Björn for having a look here :) >> >> On 7/22/19 4:11 PM, Björn Höfling wrote:> I wanted to give it a try for >> myself but failed: I could not build >> > qtwebkit locally, and no substitutes are available. I don't want to >> > hold back my comments any longer, so I postponed trying it out. >> >> qtwebkit seems to fail on master as well and it needs long to build, so >> I can't do it locally on my laptop: >> http://ci.guix.gnu.org/build/1488065/details >> >> > I wonder if we need the dependency on qtwebkit or if we can get rid of >> this, but I haven't investigated yet. >> >> I think we need it as openSUSE and Debian have a build require on >> qtwebkit-devel and it's noted at their wiki: >> https://www.freecadweb.org/wiki/CompileOnUnix#Getting_the_dependencies >> >