kde4bindings fails to build on ARM

[Michael Casadevall]

kde4bindings FTBFS due to a bug in python-qt4. kde4libs also needs a patch removed that was added erroneously due to the bug in python-qt4

[Michael Casadevall (mcasadevall)]

Version: (using Devel)
Compiler: GCC 4.3 ARM architecture
OS: Linux
Installed from: Compiled sources

On architectures where Qt doesn't define qreal to double but a float (that is, architectures lacking a FPU, the ARM architecture, and Windows CE), parts of KDE fail to build from source, such as kde4bindings due to this mismatch since a few APIs return QList <double> vs QList <qreal>, which then fail when other code (such as kde4bindings), tries to QList<qreal> = *function call that returns QList <double>*

majorTickMarks() and minorTickMarks() are two functions (from kplotaxis.h), that currently have this issue, but their may be others that also do. Although the obvious fix would be to change the QList<doubles> to QList<qreal>, this may be the wrong way to fix it (there are cases where you want to return doubles for instance). I"ll provide a patch once the proper fix is determined.

[mumismo (mumismo)]

moved to bindings

[Michael Casadevall (mcasadevall)]

I'm not moving this bug to bindings is appropriate; this is an issue with kdelibs specifically, it just happens bindings has code that triggers the build failure. kplotaxis is a QWidget derived widget; the bug is occurring because its using double directly vs. qreal.

Alternatively, if it is a binding specific problem, then the bug is in sip specifically since that's what generates the code, but as far as I can tell, placing data elements from KPlotAxis into a QList<qreal> is acceptable (aka, sip is generated proper code, it just happens that as long as kplotaxis is using double specifically vs. qreal, it will break on architectures that qreal != double).

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package python-qt4 - 4.4.4-2ubuntu1

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python-qt4 (4.4.4-2ubuntu1) jaunty; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/kubuntu_01_armel_support.dpatch (LP: #308814)
    - Corrects a configuration test which caused qreals to end up
      as floats on non-ARM architectures, and as doubles on ARM architectures.
    - Added handling of doubles on qreal != float for QLists

 -- Michael Casadevall <email address hidden> Tue, 16 Dec 2008 02:58:05 -0500

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package kde4libs - 4:4.1.85-0ubuntu2

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kde4libs (4:4.1.85-0ubuntu2) jaunty; urgency=low

  [ Michael Casadevall ]
  * debian/patches/kubuntu_kplotaxis_qreal.diff
    - Dropped, unnecessaru since fixes to pyqt4 allows it to handle
      the qreals properly (LP: #308814)
  * debian/patches/kubuntu_70_nepomuk_qreal.diff
    - Removed since a better fix needs to be handled upstream, and
      nepomuk currently is disabled on Kubuntu builds
  * debian/patches/kubuntu_99_update_cmake_pyqt.diff
    - This updates the cmake rules for PyQt4 from kde4bindings
      so information such as sip flags can be obtainined

  [ Scott Kitterman ]
  * Restore kdelibs5 depends on launchpad-integration lost in a merge

 -- Michael Casadevall <email address hidden> Fri, 19 Dec 2008 21:31:40 -0500

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package kde4bindings - 4:4.1.85-0ubuntu2

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kde4bindings (4:4.1.85-0ubuntu2) jaunty; urgency=low

  [ Scott Kitterman ]
  * Don't build-dep cli-common-dev on hppa (as with the rest of the mono
    build-dep)
  * Fix version/patch in debian/qyoto.pc (thanks to Eric Butler for spotting
    and proposing the fix)

  [ Michael Casadevall ]
  * debian/patches/kubuntu_01_updating_plotting_apis.patch:
    - Removed, unneeded due to python-qt4 fixes (LP: #308814)
  * debian/patches/kubuntu_01_make_pykde4_respect_sip_flags.diff
    - This gets PyKDE4 to properly pull in PyQT4's SIP flags, such as
      PyQt_qreal_double, necessary to make builds on ARM work.
  * debian/control:
    - Changed build-dep on python-qt4 and kde4libs to include
      the proper revision number with all the correct fixes
  * debian/qyoto-examples.install
    - Modified to handle arm build directly which doesn't end in -gnu
  * debian/rules:
    - Modified to handle arm build directly which doesn't end in -gnu
  * debian/patches/kubuntu_04_disable_csharp_plasma_examples.patch:
    - Removed, We now have a patch to fix the examples
  * debian/patches/kubuntu_04_disable_csharp_plasma_examples.patch:
    - New patch, Fixes C# examples. Thank you Jo Shields (directhex) for the
      patch (LP: #308891)

 -- Michael Casadevall <email address hidden> Tue, 16 Dec 2008 20:33:58 -0500

[Michael Casadevall (mcasadevall)]

Its still FTBFSing due to a bug in the python-qt4 packaging. A patch has been committed to python-modules in Debian and awaiting upload there.

[Michael Casadevall (mcasadevall)]

Created attachment 29543
Checks for PyQt_qreal_double ...

The main issue was caused by PyQt_qreal_double not being passed to sip during the generation of python-kde4 C files. The following patch fixes that, but the cmake code should probably be changed to use all the options set forth by SIP (unless this is done like this for a reason).

[Michael Casadevall (mcasadevall)]

here's the patch from python-modules SVN

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package python-qt4 - 4.4.4-2ubuntu2

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python-qt4 (4.4.4-2ubuntu2) jaunty; urgency=low

  * debian/python-qt4.install (LP: #308814)
    - Install pyqtconfig.py files into python-qt4 vs. python-qt4-dev.
      This is because python-qt4 is arch any, and python-qt4-dev is
      arch all, and the config file can be different on different
      architectures (i.e. ARM)
  * debian/rules:
    - Moved pyqtconfig.py installation to python-qt4.install
    - Standardized the use of tabs over spaces
  * debian/control:
    - Added necessary conflict/replaces to python-qt4

 -- Michael Casadevall <email address hidden> Mon, 22 Dec 2008 06:45:15 -0500

[Andrew-crouthamel (andrew-crouthamel)]

Dear Bug Submitter,

This bug has been stagnant for a long time. Could you help us out and re-test if the bug is valid in the latest version? I am setting the status to NEEDSINFO pending your response, please change the Status back to REPORTED when you respond.

Thank you for helping us make KDE software even better for everyone!

[Andrew-crouthamel (andrew-crouthamel)]

Dear Bug Submitter,

This is a reminder that this bug has been stagnant for a long time. Could you help us out and re-test if the bug is valid in the latest version? This bug will be moved back to REPORTED Status for manual review later, which may take a while. If you are able to, please lend us a hand.

Thank you for helping us make KDE software even better for everyone!

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If you can reproduce the issue, please change the status to "REPORTED" when replying. Thank you!

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