IDE build as qt5 fails
lazarus / 1-Linux

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rossh_lz · 2022-07-05 11:15

Have version 2.2.2, and trying to build the IDE as QT5, but fail with
nonsensical errors:

Error: /usr/bin/mkdir: cannot create directory
'../units/x86_64-linux/qt5': Permission denied
make[1]: *** [Makefile:4657: ../units/x86_64-linux/qt5] Error 1
Error: make: *** [Makefile:3793: idepkg] Error 2

But dir  ~/.lazarus/units/x86_64-linux/qt5  is created by the IDE
build with mode 775.  The IDE will happily build any of the GTk2
variants, but not with any other LCL specified.

Tried erasing  ~/.lazarus  for the OOBE, but no luck.

Have libqt5pas-dev and libqt5pas1 installed on Ubuntu 20.04.4.

How to see / compile the IDE with more insight to the actual fault
cause?

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rossh_lz · 2022-07-06 11:03

Talking to myself here...   Found and fixed.  The error is that one of
the many make files that rebuilds the IDE [$(MAKE) -C ide idepkg],
this one checks for existence of
/usr/share/lazarus/2.2.2/units/x86_64-linux/qt5/, but it's not there. 
Once created, the scripts all run to completion, and correctly create
all compiled units and bin file to the localized ~/.lazarus/*

Until the script is fixed, create the missing dir:  sudo mkdir 
/usr/share/lazarus/<version-n>/units/x86_64-linux/qt5

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dsiders · 2022-07-06 16:46

Quote from: rossh_lz on July 06, 2022, 01:03:44 pmTalking to myself
here...   Found and fixed.  The error is that one of the many make
files that rebuilds the IDE [$(MAKE) -C ide idepkg], this one checks
for existence of  /usr/share/lazarus/2.2.2/units/x86_64-linux/qt5/,
but it's not there.  Once created, the scripts all run to completion,
and correctly create all compiled units and bin file to the localized
~/.lazarus/*

Until the script is fixed, create the missing dir:  sudo mkdir 
/usr/share/lazarus/<version-n>/units/x86_64-linux/qt5

This problems was fixed in 9e762cde89 for the main branch. I do not
see it in the fixes branch... but that may be my lack of skills with
Git.