Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] svn-4661: gr-qtgui not building on NetBSD

[Berndt Josef Wulf]

On Wednesday 28 February 2007 13:24:19 you wrote:
> Berndt Josef Wulf wrote:
> > configure detects qt3 but fails to find qwt-5.0.1 and hence won't build
> > gr-qtqui. It appears that the configure script uses the pkg-config
> > utility to retrieve metainformation about installed libraries. However,
> > qwt does not install a pkg-config metadata file. Does qwt install a
> > pkg-config metadata file on Linux?
>
> No.
>
> First, the new gr-qtgui component is a work-in-progress, so it doesn't
> do anything much useful yet (other than in a very specific test scenario
> used last week during the OFDM bash).
>
> The configure script is incomplete.  The group was using a manually
> created qwt.pc file as a substitute to fishing this out autotools
> macros.  Bob McGwier will be updating the .m4 file to work without the
> .pc file, and then it should start working on several platforms.
>
> > gr-qtgui built fine after manually creating a pkg-config metadata file
> > for qwt. I believe that I shouldn't need to do this.
>
> Correct, see above.

Sorry, I didn't realise that gr-qtgui wasn't ready for public release yet. It 
caught my attention as I've been writing some widgets using pyqt.

cheerio Berndt