Bug#793304: vtk6: FTBFS on arm*: qt4 not found

[Anton Gladky]

Hi Emilio,

vtk6 fails to build on armel and armhf against qt5, so it
is already requested to remove it on those platforms
#792883.

Cheers

Anton


2015-07-22 19:21 GMT+03:00 Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu at debian.org>:
> Source: vtk6
> Version: 6.2.0+dfsg1-1
> Severity: serious
>
> The latest vtk6 upload fails to build on arm*. That seems to be because
> d/rules contains:
>
> qt4_archs = armel armhf
> ifeq (,$(filter $(DEB_HOST_ARCH),$(qt4_archs)))
>         extra_flags += -DVTK_QT_VERSION=5
> else
>         extra_flags += -DVTK_QT_VERSION=4
> endif
>
> Reason:
>
> vtk6 (6.1.0+dfsg2-2) unstable; urgency=medium
>
>   * [463aa5a] Use Qt4 on armel and armhf instead of Qt5. (Closes: #763763)
>
> However the last upload contained this change:
>
>   * [880e68d] Remove Qt4 dependencies. (Closes: #784557, #765491)
>
>
> So I guess vtk6 should build with qt5 on arm* again.
>
> Please fix this ASAP as it's blocking the ongoing vtk6 transition and the
> ffmpeg one, and it will get tangled with the libstdc++ one when that starts.
>
> Emilio
>
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