Please add libreCAD to the Fedora repositories.

[Craig Goodyear]

On 11/11/2012 01:40 PM, Thomas Cameron wrote:
> On 11/06/2012 10:25 PM, Steve wrote:
>> libreCAD is the take over of what used to be QCAD.    QCAD has been
>> forked into a closed source application and work on the open source
>> application appears to have ceased.
>>
>> The libreCAD team has been doing an admiral job of enhancing the
>> application.   I ran the most recent versions of 1.x on and off for the
>> last couple months and recently upgraded to version 2.0.0 "alpha", which
>> runs surprisingly well for something called "alpha". By comparison, I
>> lost a significant amount of work running the last released open source
>> version of QCAD.
>
> I was really stoked to hear about this, but then I tried to compile it
> on F17 and had no luck.
>
> It bombs saying:
>
> Cannot open
> /home/tcameron/Downloads/LibreCAD/LibreCAD-master/librecad/support/doc/imgs/LibreCADicon.png.
> scripts/postprocess-unix.sh: line 28: lrelease: command not found
> cp: cannot stat `*.qm': No such file or directory
> make[2]: *** [../../unix/librecad] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory
> `/home/tcameron/Downloads/LibreCAD/LibreCAD-master/librecad/src'
> make[1]: *** [sub-src-make_default] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory
> `/home/tcameron/Downloads/LibreCAD/LibreCAD-master/librecad'
> make: *** [sub-librecad-make_default-ordered] Error 2
>
> Too bad, I was really hoping for a good CAD program for Linux.
>

I was able to compile the source tar file on Fedora 17 x86_64.  I had to 
install qt-devel, muParser and muParser-devel.  Then run "qmake-qt4 
librecad.pro" and "make"