Newbie posting - How do I compile for Gentoo?

[Mark Elkins]

Hi  Subsurface Newbie here. I'm a dive instructor and a keen Linux user. I have Gentoo Linux (pretty much up to date - etc) on my Laptop and am so stoked to find Subsurface. Have loaded from the Android store on to my Samsung S9.
I have both Suunto Cobra (RS232) and a D6i (USB).

Downloaded the software - ran "make" and it says "run build.sh first" which does not exist.
Seem to have most prerequisites and ran an "emerge -av libdivecomputer" - though now wondering if that was the right thing to do.
Also did a "git clone http://github.com/Subsurface-divelog/subsurface.git" - still no "build.sh" file :-(

Can someone please hold my hand and get me started - please?

[Mark Elkins]

Thats Subsurface 4.9.1

[Jason Bramwell]

If you just want to run Subsurface then compilation may not be necessary, just grab the appimage and use that. 

Jb

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[Mark Elkins]

After being unable to compile for Gentoo (I see it used to be in Portage years back!) I downloaded the appimage. Got this working and I'm a happy person.

Its downloaded from my D6i :-)

I do thing though that a "location" should be two fields - e.g. an area (Ponta do Ouro = town in Southern Mozambique) and dive site (Paradise Reef - there are quite a few different reefs!) - either that or something else between country and location.

On 2019/08/14 19:36, Jason Bramwell wrote:

Towards the bottom of this webpage https://subsurface-divelog.org/download/

It probably doesn’t need to work with your libraries, the appimage has everything it needs baked into it.

Jb

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On 14 Aug 2019, at 17:02, Mark Elkins <mjel...@gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks - but from where would I get such an image - that uses my versions of the libraries. Willing to give it a trial though!

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[Jason Bramwell]

Each particular location is a single place so to my mind a single field is appropriate, I know what you mean about wanting to organise your sites though. The way I organise my sites works for me, I go Country - City - Site or something like that so an example entry would be ‘UK - Plymouth - Scylla’. Sometimes I go a bit further and add the body of water in too so an example of this could be ‘Adriatic - Croatia - Plomin Luka - Vis’.

Some people don’t really care about this though any just give their names a single name entry and use the geo-lookup to add in the meaningful data.

Hope this helps

Jb

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[Dirk Hohndel]

It's in scripts/build.sh

There's an INSTALL file in the repository. I wonder what's inside...

(sorry - I know that's a snide remark... but I struggle with how much more obvious we can make it)

/D

[Samuel David Self]

To add my 2=Y=  for whatever it's worth ....

Back with Slackware 2.3, when I was just starting out with linux, the only answer I ever got to those types of questions was RTFM.  I kind of thought that was a tradition in the linux subculture.

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