Supported Linux Distro's

[darren]

I've got Cirrus build 445 running under Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) but you only list Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper Drake) and Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft) as being supported; are there known issues specific to 7.04 and 7.10?

Many Thanks,
Darren

[Craig]

Nope. We just haven't updated the supported distros list with newer versions than those we explicitly tested. Basically, if it starts at all it's as supported as any distro is.

[smcguire36]

What about compatability with Slackware? It seemed to install ok, but when I click on the link in the menu, it looks like it is starting up then it just goes away.

--Stewart McGuire

[Jacques]

Could you run it from the command line and and copy what it prints out. First remove the output redirection from the shell script though, thanks.

[Jacques]

I just installed slack 12.1. From the vanilla install I was getting a symbol lookup error similar to the one the Gentoo guys were getting, which would explain why nothing was happening when you attempted to launch the program.

As a first step (sorry this probably won't completely solve your problem) download the latest version of Qt from trolltech here (ftp://ftp.trolltech.com/qt/source/qt-x11-free-3.3.8.tar.bz2). Then the usual...

tar xvf qt-x11*
cd qt-x11-free-3.3.8
./configure -thread
make

Then temporarily add the lib directory to $LD_LIBRARY_PATH, for bash this is simply

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=`pwd`/lib

Then run bcompare in the same shell.

If you do this, I'd be interested to know how it goes, thanks.

Edit: You'll probably have to apply the immodule patch which you can get from
http://people.freedesktop.org/~daisuke/, thanks to Ender.

[smcguire36]

Here is the error I am getting:
/usr/local/bin/bcompare: symbol lookup error: /usr/local/lib/beyondcompare/libqtc.so.1: undefined symbol: _ZNK9QCDEStyle9classNameEv

I already have the latest version of Qt installed. I will try the immodule patch next. Just downloaded it. How do I apply the diff file? Forgive my ignorance, I am still learning linux.

--Stewart

[Jacques]

No problem, after you extract the Qt source simply run the following command.
patch -p0 < qt-x11-immodule-unified-qt3.3.3-20040910.diff
Then after you change directories run
./make-symlinks.sh
Then you should be able to follow the same directions I posted before.

Did you get that error after running Qt against the version you compiled or against Slackware's version? If you are not sure which version of Qt is being loaded, just run
ldd bcompare
and look for libqt-mt.so.3.

Edit: By the way, I was able to get it to run on Slack with the immodule patch, so there should be a light at the end of the tunnel. :) If anything was unclear or if something isn't working for you don't hesitate to ask.