KXstitch V2.1.0 import issue

[Sean Enck]

On 2019-05-04, Robin Laing wrote:
> On 04/05/2019 17:52, Sean Enck wrote:
> > On 2019-05-04, Robin Laing wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > My wife is using kxstitch 2.1.0 which I built last year to fix a crash
> > > issue.  I will attempt to rebuild it but I would like to download 2.1.1 but
> > > there is no tar of that on the download page.
> > > 
> > > Present version I compiled has an issue with importing images which I think
> > > is related to the ImageMagic issues from the mail list.  JPG's are black and
> > > pngs are empty.
> > > 
> > > I am not familiar with GIT to get the lastest source code and the latest tar
> > > is only 2.1.0 which I have.  I do not want to clone the whole kxtitch
> > > repository, just the code I need.
> > > 
> > > I am on Fedora 29 presently.
> > > 
> > > Thank you
> > > Robin
> > 
> > Source code for 2.1.1 is available here as a tar.xz (I just don't think there
> > is a link on the kxstitch page):
> > https://download.kde.org/stable/kxstitch/2.1.1/
> > 
> > > From issues (you point to) you may need to get the latest code, I
> > understand you don't necessarily want to learn git/download the whole
> > repository, this is the command you would use to get the LATEST code and
> > only the latest code (not the whole repository, history, etc.)
> > 
> > git clone --depth=1 git://anongit.kde.org/kxstitch.git
> > 
> > from that you would then be able to build it from source
> > 
> > --Sean
> > 
> 
> Hello Sean,
> 
> Thanks for the pointers.
> 
> I will try both versions if I can get 2.1.1 to compile.  I cannot get 2.1.0
> to compile at this time due to changes in code since the last time I
> compiled over a year ago.
> 
> I will get 2.1.1 to compile first.  I do agree from the mail list that the
> latest code is what is needed for the ImageMagick issues.
> 
> From the date on the 2.1.1 code, it was just a few days older than the one I
> downloaded.
>

I believe you'll hit compilation issues with qt in 2.1.1 (requiring code added
after 2.1.1 to successfully build) which is probably what you hit trying to
get 2.1.0 to compile as well.

--Sean