Re: [wsjt-devel] ft8code from wsjtx-2.0.1.x86_64.rpm fails

[Richard S. <hob...@gm...>]

On Fri, Mar 15, 2019 at 10:42 AM Saku <oh...@sr...> wrote:

> Installed    wsjtx-2.0.1.x86_64.rpm
> <https://physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/k1jt/wsjtx-2.0.1.x86_64.rpm> to my
> Fedora 28 some time ago and the wsjt-x works without problems.
>
> Today I tried to start  ft8code, but it fails:
> ft8code: error while loading shared libraries: libgfortran.so.4: cannot
> open shared object file: No such file or directory
>
> My libraries show:
> [saku@hamtpad wsjtx-prefix]$ ls /lib64/libgfor*.*
> /lib64/libgfortran.so.5  /lib64/libgfortran.so.5.0.0
>
> Symlinking /lib64/libgfortran.so.5.0.0 to libgfortran.so.4 does not work
> (no backwards compatible):
> ft8code: /lib64/libgfortran.so.4: version `GFORTRAN_7' not found (required
> by ft8code)
>
> So rpm for Fedora29 is not full compatible with Fedora28 even when wsjt-x
> itself works ok.
> When compiled from source ft8code starts ok.
>

WSJT-X 2.0.1 is available for Fedora 28...

https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=1216005

Is something preventing a normal dnf update from picking it up?

Thanks,
Richard
(WSJTX maintainer)