Excellent Kari! I can work with this. I do compile from the source tarball but that won't be a problem based on what you have told me. Hopefully this evening I will have some time to work through this.
Thanks! 73 -Jim NU0C On Sun, 14 May 2023 19:48:50 +0300 Kari Sillanmäki via wsjt-devel <wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > On 14.5.2023 18.15, Jim Shorney via wsjt-devel wrote: > > Thanks Kari. That sounds like a viable option. Can you tell me how you did > > that? I'm not a code warrior. I am an old DOS/Windows guy. I can follow > > good instructions and do some logical troubleshooting but I'm not well > > versed in making the compiler do cool tricks. :) > > > > 73 > > > > -Jim > > NU0C > > Hi Jim, > > I'm no code warrior either and this 'cmake' utility > goes well above my head and totally confuses me. > > Maybe there is some 'magic swithc' that could be flipped > to exclude stuff from the build, but I'm not aware > if any such swithc exists or not. > > So, after a good deal of head scratching and foul language > I finally came up with this: > > 1) Locate file 'CMakeLists.txt' in the source root directory > 2) Edit that file and comment out line 1436 > > 3) Save file and compile as usual > > Now it is is that easy if you compile with the 'git clone' -method. > > However, if you are using the 'wsjtx-2.7.0-rc1.tgz' tarball, > things get a bit tricky because you need to make the > change to 'CMakeLists.txt' that is packed inside the > 'wsjtx.tgz' archive. This is how that goes: > > 1) Install 'archivemount' utility if not installed already > 2) Since you have alredy tried to compile, you already have 'wsjtx.tgz' in > some directory > 3) Change to that directory: cd </path/to/your/compile>/wsjtx-2.7.0/src > 4) Create a temporary directory: mkdir edit > 5) Mount the tgz: archivemount wsjtx.tgz edit > 6) Use good old vi editor and comment out line 1436: vi > edit/wsjtx/CMakeLists.txt > 7) Save the file, then unmount directory: sudo umount edit > 8) Calculate md5sum for the modified archive: md5sum wsjtx.tgz > 9) Update the new sum to file wsjtx.tgz.md5sum: vi wsjtx.tgz.md5sum > > 10) Compile as usual > > Phew! Sure hope someone comes up with an easier procedure than that.. > > If these do not work for you, feel free to contact me off list. > > 73's de Kari, oh2gqc > > > > > On Sun, 14 May 2023 12:29:46 +0300 > > Kari Sillanmäki via wsjt-devel<wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > > >> Hi Jim, > >> > >> I encountered the same problem in my Ubuntu 18.04 system. > >> > >> Since it's only the new "qmap" program that causes this issue, I > >> compiled WSJT-X without qmap. > >> > >> I don't have any use for qmap anyway. > >> > >> This way I can postpone the inevitable OS upgrade to some later time... > >> > >> 73's de Kari, oh2gqc > > > > _______________________________________________ > > wsjt-devel mailing list > > wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel > _______________________________________________ wsjt-devel mailing list wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel
