Fedora 44 - Error compiling survex

[Bill Gee]

I tried your suggestion to compile from the .tar.gz file instead of 
using rpmbuild.  That works.  No errors, and the documentation files 
come in as they should.

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Bill Gee

On 5/3/26 18:42, Olly Betts wrote:
> On Sun, May 03, 2026 at 06:25:17PM -0500, Bill Gee wrote:
>> I have been all over that page listing required packages.  I note that
>> latexmk is not on the list, which implies some other requirements may also
>> be unlisted.
> 
> "latexmk" is 4 from the bottom.
> 
> It was missing before I updated the list to match what's currently
> installed by the CI builds, but that was *before* I replied to you -
> maybe you need to force-reload your browser to get the updated list?
> 
>> I tried the .tar.gz file.  Rpmbuild failed with a complaint that
>> wxGTK3-devel is not present.  There is no package by that name in Fedora.
>> It is named wxGTK-devel and has version 3.2.9.  I think that is a
>> show-stopper since there is no way I know of to tell rpmbuild to use a
>> different package name for that dependency.
> 
> Probably the .spec file is out of date.  We should probably drop it now
> there's actually a Fedora package as nobody's regularly using it any
> more.
> 
> Better to follow the instructions for building from source in INSTALL
> instead.
> 
>> Is there a log file that captures the entire "make install" run?  I tried
>> redirecting STDOUT to a file.  It seems to have captured most of the output.
>> See attached.  I see only one attempt to run latexmk.
> 
> Probably just capture stdout and maybe stderr.  The log doesn't seem to
> show the previous failure.  I'd guess it's some missing TeX thing.
> 
> Cheers,
>      Olly