[Gambas-user] Compilation hangs on QT4 with Ubuntu 18.04.

[Bruce Steers]

if 18.04 has qt5 then you could disable qt4 at ./configure

./configure -C --disable-keyring --disable-qt4



On Tue, 30 Mar 2021 at 03:13, ML <d4t4full at gmail.com> wrote:

> Guys,
>
> Spent last weekend trying to revive the 20GB VirtualVox VM that I set up
> and used to patch gb.db.odbc several years ago (from SVN!).
> Long story short, I had to switch it from Ubuntu 16.04 32bit to Ubuntu
> 18.04 64bit; so pretty much had to recreate it.
> This last step obliterated the Firebird setup I created to fix row count
> on it, but I'm confident I can get it back up.
>
> I had to refork my copy of Gambas in GitLab too, thanks to not having
> re-synced it for quite some time...
> In doing this, I set up the "dual remote repo" recommended in the new
> CONTRIBUTING file and Wiki to have the repos easily synced.
>
> (just in case, the pages I read are http://gambaswiki.org/wiki/install
> and http://gambaswiki.org/wiki/howto/contribute)
>
> Also got unixODBC and all its glory -and gory- bits installed, along
> with FreeTDS for astonishing MSSQL connectivity.
>
> Then, I got to the gambas workflow: "sudo apt install <dependencies>",
> "./reconf-all", "./configure -C --disable-keyring", you know: the works.
>
> Next I proceeded with "make -j" as said in the wiki. It all went nice
> and easy until it got to (try to) compile the QT4 components.
> This step simply hangs the whole Virtual Machine. Not even the mouse
> pointer responds. Dead as a brick. Have to hit RESET on VirtualBox to
> restart it.
> In doing this compilation, it does get through a bunch of QT4 stuff, but
> it always get to some component or another and just freezes. Tried 4 or
> 5 times.
> Not always freezes on the same component, and subsequent attempts to
> compile even skip modules already compiled (expected). But again dies
> processing QT4.
>
> Searched the interwebs, but could not get to a reasonable response or
> reason as to why this happens, much less a solution.
>
> Does anyone have a clue as to why this may happen and, maybe, how to
> solve it?
>
> TIA,
> zxMarce.
>
>
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