On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 09:52:54PM -0500, Robert S. Kissel wrote: > [Michal Hocko has been trying to help me build pdfedit 0.4.5 under > Windows/cygwin 1.7.7. This message is > part of a thread in which she has been suggesting alterations to the > configuration and make, and I have been reporting the results of the > changes she has been recommending.] > > [untar a fresh 0.4.5 distribution] > > $ export QTDIR=/usr/share/qt3 > > $ patch -p1 <make_portability_flags_configurable.patch > patching file Makefile.flags.in > patching file README > Hunk #1 succeeded at 221 (offset -2 lines). > patching file configure.in > patching file Changelog > Hunk #1 FAILED at 2. > 1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file Changelog.rej > > $ ./hocko-configure --enable-portability-flags=no
OK, I will push the patch to our CVS repository and update the README file to mention that Cygwin can be really tricky in this direction. > . . . . > > $ make > > [Built successfully!!! At last!!!] > > $ make install > > [looks okay so far!!!] > > And then, Mrs. Hocko, I'm delighted to tell you that I opened the > cygwin X-server, typed "pdfedit" and up came PDFEDIT 0.4.5. Good to hear. > > There were lots and lots of WARNINGS all over the place in the build, > and I'm sure that as soon as I start using pdfedit, I will quickly > manage to make it crash on me (the older version crashed when I tried > to open a directory that had many files in it)...but at least NOW we > know it builds properly under cygwin... > > And I hope that this helped the PDFedit team package it up for cygwin > in the next release. Sure, thank you for your patience and testing. > > Thank you very much for all your help, Mrs. Hocko. I'm delighted that > this is running...and I shall now try to use it for the purposes for > which I wished to install it. I hope it will work for you but be warned that PDFedit is (unfortunatelly) still Beta release software and even more said is that there is not enough man power to change this situtaion in the near future. -- Michal Hocko ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Beautiful is writing same markup. Internet Explorer 9 supports standards for HTML5, CSS3, SVG 1.1, ECMAScript5, and DOM L2 & L3. Spend less time writing and rewriting code and more time creating great experiences on the web. Be a part of the beta today http://p.sf.net/sfu/msIE9-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Pdfedit-support mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pdfedit-support
