Re: error while doing "make rpm-package" on wireshark latest trunk

[P Gyanesh Patra <c3m3gyanesh () gmail com>]

Thanks for your reply. I still have one doubt :).

How will i make sure that the Qt Tools will not get build while doing "make
rpm-package" ?

-
Gyanesh


On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 11:59 PM, Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss.ws () gmail com>wrote:

> Pascal Quantin wrote:
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> > 2012/10/7 P Gyanesh Patra <c3m3gyanesh () gmail com <mailto:
> > c3m3gyanesh () gmail com>**>
> >
> >
> >
> >      just need one info..
> >     i am compiling wireshark on centos6.1 64bit..     while doing "make
> > rpm-package" i am getting following error:
> >
> >     make[1]: Entering directory `/root/wireshark-svn/**wireshark/ui/qt'
> >     uic main_welcome.ui -o ui_main_welcome.h
> >     make[1]: uic: Command not found
> >     make[1]: *** [ui_main_welcome.h] Error 127
> >
> >     make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/wireshark-svn/**wireshark/ui/qt'
> >     make: *** [distdir] Error 1
> >
> >     Please tell me what package i need to install as i have tried to
> >     search a lot but still unable to fix it.
> >     Gyanesh
> >
> >   Hi Gyanesh,
> >
> > uic is the Qt user interface compiler (used to build qtShark, a new GUI
> > based on Qt framework). So you need to install the Qt packages for CentOS.
> > Not sure why the compilation of qtShark is part of the make rpm-package
> > though as I have never built such package myself. Maybe someone else can
> > give an advice.
>
> The "problem" is that RPMs are (always) built from source tarballs. When
> you're doing a "make rpm-package" you're working from the (untar'd or from
> SVN) source so in order to make an RPM the tools must first do "make dist"
> to make the tarball.
>
> "make dist" currently requires you to have the Qt stuff installed
> (presumably that makes sense from a Qt perspective).
>
> I've noticed this before and have intentionally *not* added the Qt tools
> to the list of things you must have to build Wireshark: most of us aren't
> building Qt anyway...  But it does leave us in an ugly situation:
> autogen.sh doesn't complain that the tools are missing and if you don't
> then "make dist" (or a Qt build?) fails much later on.
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