Bug#764114: freeciv: Error during build

[Rogier]

> >> The freeciv-qt binary is not built on my system.
> > 
> > One difference would be, that the clean cowbuilder chroot will not
> > have any qt development files installed, as they are not
> > essential for building anything at all, nor a build-dependency of
> > freeciv, so there will be no way the freeciv-qt binary *can* be
> > built, even if there were a strong urge to build it if
> > possible...
> 
> That's an important piece of information here. So you are not
> building in a clean chroot environment.

Indeed.
I am not.

> > Apparently, the configure step does not fail if the qt client is
> > requested, and the qt headers etc. were not found...
> 
> It is true that we pass --enable-client=all to the build system but
> since we are not build-depending on any qt-libs which are necessary
> to build freeciv-qt the build will not fail on the buildd server. I
> see that this can lead to some confusion when people are not
> building in a clean environment. I will instead pass
> 
> --enable-client=gtk2,gtk3,sdl,xaw,stub
> 
> to the configure step explicitly. I hope that helps.

I assume it will.

Thanks very much.

Rogier.