build qt5 stable (changed subject from: qt5 stable: qengineio: fatal: remote error: access denied or repository not exported)

[Albert Astals Cid]

El Dilluns, 31 de març de 2014, a les 22:34:21, Dominik Haumann va escriure:
> On Monday 31 March 2014 17:27:33 Ben Cooksley wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 5:38 AM, Gregor Mi <codeminister at publicstatic.de>
> 
> wrote:
> > > On 30/03/14 12:41, Aleix Pol wrote:
> > >> On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 12:02 PM, Gregor Mi
> > >> 
> > >> <codeminister at publicstatic.de <mailto:codeminister at publicstatic.de>>
> 
> wrote:
> > >>     On 30/03/14 11:29, Gregor Mi wrote:
> > >>     > Hi,
> > >>     > 
> > >>     > has anyone recently build qt5 from scratch as described here [1]?
> > >>     > 
> > >>     > When doing
> > >>     > 
> > >>     > $ ./init-repository
> > >>     > 
> > >>     > the following error occurs:
> > >>     > 
> > >>     > -----------
> > >>     > + git clone git://anongit.kde.org/qt/qtenginio.git
> > >>     
> > >>     <http://anongit.kde.org/qt/qtenginio.git> qtenginio
> > >>     
> > >>     > Cloning into 'qtenginio'...
> > >>     > fatal: Could not read from remote repository.
> > >>     > 
> > >>     > Please make sure you have the correct access rights
> > >>     > and the repository exists.
> > >>     > git clone git://anongit.kde.org/qt/qtenginio.git
> > >>     
> > >>     <http://anongit.kde.org/qt/qtenginio.git> qtenginio exited with
> > >>     
> > >>     > status 32768 at ./init-repository line 305.
> > >>     > -----------
> > >>     > 
> > >>     > The other repos are working fine.
> > >>     > 
> > >>     > Best regards
> > >>     > 
> > >>     > Gregor
> > >>     > 
> > >>     > [1] http://community.kde.org/Frameworks/Building, section QT5
> > >>     
> > >>     When building QT5 as described in [1] the "stable" branch of Qt is
> > >>     now
> > >>     5.3 (and not 5.2). Is this correct?
> > >> 
> > >> AFAIK, the building dependency is 5.2 and that probably is outdated, as
> > >> stable is a moving target.
> > >> 
> > >> Either way, I'd suggest you to use stable too.
> > >> 
> > >> Aleix
> > > 
> > > Ok. Any idea about the qtenginio "Could not read from remote repository"
> > > problem? Do I need special access rights? Or is it possible that the
> > > qtenginio repo is offline?
> > 
> > This is because the upstream Qt developers have added yet another
> > module to Qt, which wasn't included in our mirror of Qt.
> > Our mirror has now been adjusted to include this new mirror.
> > 
> > This is a process which has to be done each time they add a new module.
> > 
> > For those wondering why, we maintain a mirror of Qt on the anongit
> > network to ensure that it is always available - at least in the past
> > people have had issues accessing the Gitorious repositories.
> 
> Hi Ben,
> 
> then thanks again for fixing it (again). Question though: Could this error
> be caught earlier, maybe automated?

Honestly we should stop suggesting people to build their own Qt and just use 
5.2 distro packages.

Cheers,
  Albert

> 
> I'm asking because it cost me (as someone who does 10+ years KDE/Qt
> development) quite some time to get this working. Other developers following
> our official building guide will run into this, too, and probably just give
> up. And that is quite bad.
> 
> Greetings,
> Dominik
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