[libcamera-devel] [PATCH v2 1/3] apps: qcam: Port to Qt 6

[Kieran Bingham]

Quoting Neal Gompa (2024-04-17 20:58:16)
> On Wed, Apr 17, 2024 at 11:42 AM Laurent Pinchart
> <laurent.pinchart at ideasonboard.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Apr 16, 2024 at 07:14:35PM +0100, Kieran Bingham wrote:
> > > Quoting Neal Gompa via libcamera-devel (2024-01-21 22:39:53)
> > > > Open source Qt 5 has been effectively end of life since the release
> > > > of Qt 6, and Qt 6 has current LTS releases now.
> > > >
> > > > This change ports qcam to Qt 6.2 and drops some of the baggage related
> > > > to Qt 5 that is no longer applicable.
> > >
> > > With Ubuntu 24.04 release 'imminent' (as well as the next libcamera-0.3
> > > after I can merge the softISP) I believe it's time to merge this patch.
> >
> > Unless I'm mistaken, Ubuntu will still ship Qt5, so there's no urgency.
> > I'm not opposed to this patch though (once fixed), as Qt6 seems to be
> > available everywhere.
> >
> 
> This patch isn't broken. I just was able to build it on Ubuntu 24.04
> just fine: https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/Pharaoh_Atem:/libcamera/xUbuntu_24.04/amd64/

I don't think the patch is broken, Just that there must be some
additional dependency required which may have been implicitly installed
in your case, but seems not to have been in my case. 

I'm not going to merge a patch that will prevent me from using qcam
until I know how to correctly build it again.


--
Kieran


> 
> The build dependencies I used were the ones in the readme.
> 
> You can see for yourself in the "debbuild" conditional for
> buildrequires: https://build.opensuse.org/projects/home:Pharaoh_Atem:libcamera/packages/libcamera/files/libcamera.spec?expand=1
> 
> 
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