can't compile on ubuntu 10.4 64bits

[Carlos Grohmann]

Thanks for your reply, Olly.

I went with the SVN option, and it _almost_ worked, but I end up with
an error on the docs directory:


Making all in doc
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/guano/pessoal/tmp_install/speleo/survex/doc'
docbook-to-man ./man_cad3d.sgml > cad3d.1
docbook-to-man ./man_cavern.sgml > cavern.1
docbook-to-man ./man_diffpos.sgml > diffpos.1
docbook-to-man ./man_extend.sgml > extend.1
docbook-to-man ./man_sorterr.sgml > sorterr.1
docbook-to-man ./man_3dtopos.sgml > 3dtopos.1
docbook-to-man ./man_aven.sgml > aven.1
docbook-to-man ./man_print.ini.sgml > print.ini.5
docbook-to-man ./man_svxedit.sgml > svxedit.1
make[2]: *** No rule to make target `../ChangeLog', needed by
`ChngeLog.htm'.  Stop.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/guano/pessoal/tmp_install/speleo/survex/doc'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/guano/pessoal/tmp_install/speleo/survex'
make: *** [all] Error 2


Everything else seems to be compiling OK.

cheers

Carlos


On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 00:41, Olly Betts <olly at survex.com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 01:29:31PM -0300, Carlos Grohmann wrote:
>> Hello. I just have a new machine with ubuntu 10.4 (lucid), 64 bits. I
>> tried to compile Survex, but I couldn't.
>> There is no non-unicode wxwidgets for this release (only for 9.04 from
>> one year ago).
>
> Well, your current options are to:
>
> * Build your own wxwidgets
> * Use Survex from SVN (branches/survex-1_1)
> * Wait for me to resolve a bug I'm working on and make a new release
>
>> Also, considering that the new 2.9 release of Wx won't make any
>> discrimination between unicode and ansi, may I suggest it is time for
>> a unicode-friendly survex??
>
> Survex has been Unicode-friendly for many years.
>
> The wx nomenclature is rather inaccurate really - you can use Unicode via
> UTF-8 with an "ANSI" build, whereas their "unicode" build is actually
> *wide-character* Unicode.  Since Survex uses UTF-8 internally and so does
> GTK+/Gnome, it's rather inefficient to translate everything to
> wide-character Unicode for wx only for wx to then translate it straight back
> again to pass to GTK+/Gnome.
>
> Now wx 3.0 (which 2.9 is the development version of) was supposed to resolve
> that by using UTF-8 internally in the GTK+ version:
>
> http://wiki.wxwidgets.org/Development:_UTF-8_Support
>
> So I'd been hoping to just move to that once it was out rather than have to
> update everything twice.  But wx 3.0 is now years overdue - e.g. here they hope
> to release in early 2008:
>
> http://wxwidgets.blogspot.com/2007/11/looking-forward-to-wxwidgets-3.html
>
> Understandably Linux distros don't like to have to support two versions of a
> fairly complex library like wx, which has left Survex in an increasingly
> inconvenient place.
>
> I've finally given up waiting for wx 3.0, and have been integrating and
> finishing off some patches Phil Underwood did for wide-character Unicode
> support, so the SVN version now works with the packaged versions of
> wxWidgets.
>
> It all seems to be working now, but I'm just trying to nail down why crosses
> plot as squares when using GL_POINT_SPRITE on my laptop (which seems to be
> unrelated to Unicode, but it would be good to fix).
>
>> The official repositories still have only survex 1.0.39, but 1.1.12 is
>> available for a while...
>
> 1.0.39 is still the current stable release.
>
> 1.1.12 is a development version.  If it wasn't for this whole wx Unicode
> saga, it would probably be the stable version now, but the changes for
> wide-character Unicode touch a lot of the code so I'd like to make at least
> one more development release to try to shake out any bugs that might
> introduce.
>
> Cheers,
>    Olly
>



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