build failing with errors on sip

[chriso]

hi,

I'm having problems getting arsenal to compile properly as it's
failing on trying to build sip.

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Starting Build
Targets: [sip]
Args: ['-color', '-command_only', 'clean', 'build', 'install',
'release']
Building: sip /opt/arsenalsuite/cpp/lib/sip
make[1]: Entering directory `/opt/arsenalsuite/cpp/lib/sip/sipgen'
gcc -c -pipe -O2 -w -DNDEBUG -I. -o main.o main.c
gcc -c -pipe -O2 -w -DNDEBUG -I. -o transform.o transform.c
gcc -c -pipe -O2 -w -DNDEBUG -I. -o gencode.o gencode.c
gcc -c -pipe -O2 -w -DNDEBUG -I. -o extracts.o extracts.c
gcc -c -pipe -O2 -w -DNDEBUG -I. -o export.o export.c
gcc -c -pipe -O2 -w -DNDEBUG -I. -o heap.o heap.c
gcc -c -pipe -O2 -w -DNDEBUG -I. -o parser.o parser.c
gcc -c -pipe -O2 -w -DNDEBUG -I. -o lexer.o lexer.c
main.c:36: error: ‘includeDirList’ undeclared here (not in a
function)transform.c:27: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘*’ tokengencode.c:
46: error: expected spe$
main.c:39: error: ‘FALSE’ undeclared here (not in a function)

I've tried on centos and on debian and in both instances it would seem
that the command python build.py prepare is not parsing/outputting the
makefiles correctly. This is source files from the code repository.

Does anyone have any insight?

cheers
chris

[Matthew Newell]

>I've tried on centos and on debian and in both instances it would seem
>that the command python build.py prepare is not parsing/outputting the
>makefiles correctly

Do you mean python build.py sip_prepare ?

If yes, you shouldn't need to run that, and if you did i would revert
any changes to the files in cpp/lib/sip, and try compiling again.

If that doesn't work tell me what versions of centos and debian you
tried with, and the version of gcc. I compile on debian daily and
centos occasionally so I should be able to compare my setup.

Matt

[chriso]

matt,
thanks for the quick response, sorry for the delayed reply.
I am using debian 6.0.3

I've had to back up a step before even getting to the sip/pyqt build
stage.
I couldn't find the qt sources described in the website so have gone
for the qt-digia-qt-4.6.4.tar.gz package from the git repo.
at the moment 2 things are stopping this from going ahead, 1. pgsql in
a different place and
2. configure works but the openssl libs are failing.

any ideas wrt debian installs specifically would be great, it is my
platform of choice generally.

cheers
chris

[Matthew Newell]

I've been using debian's qt 4.7.3 packages from testing(wheezy) and
they have been working good. If you don't want to pull from testing
there should be 4.6.3 debs in squeeze.

I used to use Qt compiled from source but the debian binaries have
been working good for me since i switched.

Matt

[chriso]

matt,
the tip for qt package worked a charm, thankyou.

strangely the original error to do with shift conflicts with sip
configure has gone away. I have just successfully compiled
arsenalsuite.

thanks again.
C.