Re: [proaudio] What happed to media-sound/fmit ?

[Gavin Pryke <gavinlee303@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 22 November 2010 17:21:16 Dominique Michel wrote:
> Le Mon, 22 Nov 2010 14:19:16 +0200,
> 
> Alexandros Diamantidis <adia@xxxxxxxxx> a écrit :
> > * Gavin Pryke [2010-11-22 07:10]:
> > > As far as I know the latest version from the fmit homepage is still
> > > a Qt3 app. Please post back your findings whether you get it to
> > > work or not. If it doesn't work maybe it should be masked.
> > 
> > A few weeks ago, I tried installing Qt3 from the kde-sunset overlay
> > and building fmit using both the ebuild and by hand, but got
> > compilation errors in both cases. I wanted to look into the errors a
> > bit more closely before asking about it, but never did, so if anyone
> > can make it work, please tell us about it.
> > 
> > Maybe someone could ask the fmit developer whether there are any plans
> > to port it? The TODO file doesn't mention anything in that direction,
> > but if there was demand, he'd probably consider it, since apart from
> > Gentoo, other distros have removed Qt3 as well...
> > 
> > Alexandros
> 
> The new kaffeine is a calamity for me (I cannot get phonon to work with
> jackd from inside fvwm, and the new interface doesn't have the half of
> the functions from the old one), so I still have qt3 inside my system.
> 
> I get a lot of errors wehn trying to merge fmit :
> 
> ...
>  * USE:  alsa amd64 elibc_glibc jack kernel_linux multilib userland_GNU
>  * Please fix your package (media-sound/fmit-0.97.6) to not use
>    kde-functions.eclass
> /usr/portage/local/layman/pro-audio/media-sound/fmit/fmit-0.97.6.ebuild:
> line 6: need-qt: command not found
> 
> >>> Unpacking source...
> 
> ...
> /usr/qt/3/bin/moc ConfigForm.h > ConfigForm_moc.cpp
> ACCESS DENIED
> open_wr:      /usr/qt/3/etc/settings/.qt_plugins_3.3rc.lock ACCESS
> DENIED  open_wr:      /usr/qt/3/etc/settings/.qt_plugins_3.3rc.lock
> make  all-am
> ...
> CaptureThread.o: In function `CaptureThreadImplJACK::capture_init()':
> CaptureThread.cpp:(.text+0x6eb6): undefined reference to
> `jack_error_callback' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make[3]: *** [fmit] Error 1
> 
> So, fmit is not compatible with recent versions of jack2, it is into
> the TODO list of the last fmit version, but nothing about QT4.
> I try to compile the last version by hand and get other error as well.
> It look like it is also not compatible with recent gcc versions.
> 
> I think it must be masked, if not removed.
> 
> Ciao,
> Dominique

Thanks for everyone's input. Putting fmit in package.mask for now.

Maybe fmit could be built with the qt3support from Qt4 but not all apps 
compile successfully with it. It looks like the cmake script would need a lot 
of changes to test this. Too much stuff on TODO...

Cheers
Gav