Hi Bill,

thanks for the fast reply,

On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 11:11:10PM +0100, Bill Somerville wrote:
> On 20/10/2017 21:19, Ervin Hegedüs wrote:
> >$ cmake -D CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$HOME/wsjt -D
> >hamlib_LIBRARY_DIRS=$HOME/hamlib-prefix
> >Qt5Widgets_DIR=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/cmake/Qt5Widgets 
> >Qt5Multimedia_DIRQt5Multimedia_DIR=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/cmake/Qt5Multimedia
> >.
> 
> this is not the preferred way to configure the WSJT-X CMake build. The Qt
> libraries will be found automatically as they are installed in the "usual"
> place. The only library you need to help CMake to find is the Hamlib fork
> you have built, to do that you only need to provide the path to your local
> Hamlib install via the CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH variable. Something like:
> 
> $ cmake -D CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=~/hamlib-prefix .

well, looks like the problem exists on my side, I'll check it out
again.
 
> You may also wish to set other optional variables to skip building the User
> Guide or manpages, they need several packages to be installed and it is much
> quicker to skip them if you only want the executables.
> 
> Note that CMake will not change fundamental configuration variables when
> re-running so you will have to scrap your build tree and re-configure to
> switch to the Hamlib local install properly.
> 
> The reason for the Hamlib fork is that we contribute a lot of patches to the
> Hamlib project and the fork is tracking the Hamlib master branch and
> sometimes ahead of it while patches flow upstream to the Hamlib team. Until
> Hamlib v3.1 at least is in the distro packages the fork is the best version
> to use.

If I interpret your lines as correctly, I can use the packaged
Hamlib version, which came from the system repository (currently
the Hamlib-3.1, in Debian and its derivates)?

73, Ervin
 

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