On 26/09/15 09:17, Willy Sudiarto Raharjo wrote:
Within the last month, I built QGIS on a fresh Slackware 64 system and none of
the proposed changes were required for it to run. Can anyone else confirm that
the QGIS SlackBuild as it stands needs any changes?

Finished building qgis from scratch and i can confirm that it works as
normal


Since the download link to the _old_ libspacialite version has been fixed, I can also build the existing qgis from scratch too. Therefore, as things stand, I agree that no changes are needed to the SlackBuild for qgis.


However, as I mentioned in my first foray into this thread, I use qwt for another project and the existing version at SBo is an old version which does not meet my needs, whereas the latest available version does, one important difference between the two versions being qt4/qt5 compatibility. When I looked into what impact an update to qwt might have on other SlackBuilds I found a bunch of relevant others that also need updating.

I'm just looking for a path to being able to use the latest version of qwt. In order to do that, I have found, tested and described the updates to various qgis build dependencies, as well as the two line addition to qgis.SlackBuild itself that would be required. Having done that, I am somewhat perplexed at the opposition to any change at all.

Apart from the satisfaction of being able to build qgis as it is with these heirloom versioned dependencies, can anyone suggest a reason not to update them? If there are no other reasons, can we update them?

chris

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