unable to build qgit v2.3 from source on fedora 13

Jim Cromie jim.cromie at gmail.com
Wed Apr 6 20:40:26 UTC 2011


I just grabbed qgit4 v2.3 from sourceforge, but I cannot build it.

[jimc at groucho qgit]$ date
Wed Apr  6 14:35:08 MDT 2011
[jimc at groucho qgit]$ qmake
[jimc at groucho qgit]$ ll
total 52
-rw-r--r--. 1 jimc jimc 12394 Dec 21  2007 exception_manager.txt
-rw-rw-r--. 1 jimc jimc  1540 Apr  6 14:35 Makefile
-rw-rw-r--. 1 jimc jimc  3584 May  5  2009 qgit_inno_setup.iss
-rw-r--r--. 1 jimc jimc    57 Mar  5  2009 qgit.pro
-rw-rw-r--. 1 jimc jimc 15895 Mar 12  2009 README
-rw-r--r--. 1 jimc jimc  1035 Aug 21  2008 README_WIN.txt
drwxrwxr-x. 3 jimc jimc  4096 Apr  6 14:20 src

[jimc at groucho qgit]$ make
cd src && qmake src.pro -o Makefile
src.pro:12: Unknown test function: greaterThan
Project ERROR: Sorry I need Qt 4.3.0 or later, you seem to have Qt  instead
make: *** [src/Makefile] Error 2

I have the apparent prereqs:

$ rpm -qa |grep qt
qt-4.6.3-10.fc13.i686
qt-4.6.3-10.fc13.x86_64
qt-devel-4.6.3-10.fc13.x86_64

qmake is part of qt3 - is this why it breaks with qt4 ???

It has been built for fedora-12, but not since, apparently.

[jimc at groucho src]$ rpm -qi qgit
Name        : qgit                         Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version     : 2.3                               Vendor: Fedora Project
Release     : 2.fc12                        Build Date: Tue 28 Jul
2009 03:14:17 AM MDT
Install Date: Wed 26 May 2010 08:42:04 AM MDT      Build Host:
xenbuilder2.fedora.redhat.com
Group       : Development/Tools             Source RPM: qgit-2.3-2.fc12.src.rpm
Size        : 1001518                          License: GPLv2
Signature   : RSA/SHA256, Mon 22 Feb 2010 02:03:16 AM MST, Key ID
7edc6ad6e8e40fde
Packager    : Fedora Project
URL         : http://digilander.libero.it/mcostalba/
Summary     : GUI browser for git repositories
Description :
With qgit you are able to browse revisions history, view patch content
and changed files, graphically following different development branches.


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