Bug#804218: libqglviewer FTBFS on armel and armhf

[Adrian Bunk]

On Fri, Nov 06, 2015 at 10:34:45AM +0000, Peter Michael Green wrote:
> package: libqglviewer
> version: 2.6.3+dfsg1-1
> x-debbugs-cc: wookey at debian.org
> 
> libqglviewer FTBFS on armel and armhf, the qt4 and qt5 builds both fail for
> different reasons. wookey asked me to take a look at it.
> 
> The qt4 build is suffering from qreal vs double issues. These were fairly
> easy to patch.
> 
> The qt5 build is suffering from the fact that Debian builds qt5 on
> armel/armhf against opengl es. libqglviewer includes regular opengl headers
> leading to conflicting declarations. I tried patching it to include opengl
> es headers instead but I then ran into a load of stuff that only exists in
> desktop opengl. This needs the attention of an opengl expert if it's fixable
> at all.
>...

The latter looks fixed (or at least a lot better) now that #894076 is fixed.

It still fails due to qreal issues, it would be interesting to see 
whether the latest upstream is any better.

cu
Adrian

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