Re: [Hamfax-devel] hamfax compile on fedora 16

[Christof S. <csc...@us...>]

On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 12:36 PM, corallina <cor...@gm...> wrote:
> I downloaded the hamfax-0.8.1    zipped tar file from sourceforge on a
> fedora 16 system
> First thing I would like to mention is that this line in the README
> does not work
>
> ./configure --with-Qt-dir=/usr/lib/qt3 --with-Qt-includes=/usr/lib/qt3/include
>
> dont know why.

hamfax uses Qt4 since version 0.8. I only realized the wrong README after
tagging 0.8.1, and i did not tag a new release since then. You can check
the git repository to see the updated README:
http://hamfax.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=hamfax/hamfax;a=shortlog

> Second thing is when trying to run make it failed with  an error finding moc.
>
> In order to get the proper environment variables setup I had to change
>
> QTDIR=/usr/lib64/qt4
> PATH=/usr/lib64/qt4/bin:$PATH
>
> after that make completes
>
> I don't know how to setup  ./configure  so thought to mention what
> worked for me.

moc has to be in the PATH. I did not find a good way to detect that, so
your approach seems good. I can put that comment in the README
to document this for Fedora. Thanks for pointing that out.

As a sidenote: Fedora packaged hamfax in the past, but they dropped
it: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/acls/name/HamFax
If there are more users of hamfax on Fedora, it might be worthwhile
to ask Fedora if they want to package it again.

73

Christof