Freecad 0.13

[Pyrates]

There is an ebuild for media-gfx/freecad-0.13.1830, but I can't seem to get to try to install it. It does not have any KEYWORDS configured, yet "emerge -p freecad" wants to emerge version 0.12.5284-r3 (which, incidentally, _has_ "~amd64" as a KEYWORD). It seems a bit strange to me that the higher version does not have an unstable keyword, while the lower does, on the same architecture. I wouldn't mind, though, if I could get 0.13 to emerge.

Here's my "emerge --info". Did I miss something obvious? Should I give some other info? Thanks for any pointers!
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[VoidMage]

This is called "masked by missing keywords" - it's usually done when ebuild is more or less ready for use under some special circumstances, but not yet ready for ~arch.

[Pyrates]

Oh ok, thanks a lot. Putting "amd64" into KEYWORDS it seems willing to emerge, I'm gonna give it a shot
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[acidmonkey]

Hi, I've got a problem installing this new version of FreeCAD.

I don't know if whatever goes wrong has to do with the compile scripts of FreeCAD or is a bug in the ebuild.
It ends with just "cmake failed"

What is weird about it is that it complains about missing .cmake files named OCEConfig.cmake or oce-config.cmake which should belong to opencascade.
I've tired both the stable and unstable versions (6.5.0 and 6.6.0) of OpenCascade and still get the same issue.

here is the whole build.log

[TomWij]

Please file bugs at https://bugs.gentoo.org; the src/CMakeLists.txt has two mistakes, it tries to use a missing directory as well as illegally downloads a file during the configure phase.

[acidmonkey]

I'll try (I never reported a bug nor ever used bugzilla )

Shall I file this under Applications or ebuilds?
Isn't that an issue with what's supplied in the freecad tarball rather than something within portage or even gentoo related?

[acidmonkey]

any way here it is: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=475168

any tips on how to quick fix this for myself?

[acidmonkey]

The whole thing is a serious mess it seems.

I've got around to applying a no-third party patch from the previous version, figuring out the necessity to compile FreeCAD with MAKEOPTS="-j1" only to be stopped by a broken dependency for SMESH which is part of the Salome package for which exists an outdated version in the science overlay which in turn need python 2.4(!) to function.

So yeah.
I guess I'll have to wait to use FreeCAD within gentoo, let alone have a sane installation.

[acidmonkey]

Any input on how to resolve this would be appreciated, oh and my bug report isn't really getting any attention.

[Pyrates]

Did you try downloading the binaries linked at the freecad site and using those? Not the most elegant solution, but unless there's someone knowledgeable who finds the time and will to fix the ebuild(s), it might be the only option.
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[jserink]

Hi Guys:

Tried and RPM binary for fedora....
4 hours wasted. Tried removing cascade and using the rpms for thoss, eventually had to unmask glibc 2.17 as one of the RPMs depended on that and int the end there was s symbol error....I just gave up, removed the rpms.

Am now compiling from source but the big hiccup is that there is no ebuild for OCE for gentoo.

So am in the process of building that.

Will keep you posted.

Cheers,
john

[jserink]

Hi All:

Ok, I got version 0.13.1830 compiled and it runs fine. I did it manually WITHOUT portage.

1. You need to unmask opencascade 6.5.5 and emerge that,
2. Next you need to download and build on your own OCE (Open Cascade Community Edition), link is here https://github.com/tpaviot/oce/wiki. There is no ebuild for OCE in portage,
3. There are some instructions here if you need them (i just followed the readme included with the source and it worked fine) http://freecadamusements.blogspot.sg/2013/02/compile-opencascade-community-edition.html,
4. Once OCE was installed, as root I compiled freecad like this:
cmake -D COIN3D_INCLUDE_DIR=/usr/include/coin/ OCC_INCLUDE_DIR=/usr/lib64/opencascade-6.5.5 . Note the full stop after the 6.5.5,
5. Then when this is done, as root, make install.

Done. DXF export works a charm in this version.

Cheers,
john

[wazoo42]

jserink, I was wondering if you ran into any problems with git because my cmake command crashes with,

[jserink]

[wazoo42]

jserink, the first time around I compiled OCE-0.13. Did you use version 0.11 when you got everything to work?

[cwr]

You might be better off with LibreCad, which ISTR was a straighforward build last time I tried it:

[jserink]

Libre cad is ok if:

You only want o work on simple DXF files,
You don't need to import/view/work on step files.

Complicated DXFs with TTF fonts and the like get messed up in Libre cad. Its getting better but its not quite there yet.

[bochkov]

[kwispy]

I can confirm that the fixes outlined in Comment #7 of https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=475168#c7 worked to build freecad-0.13.1830. I had to modify the ebuild a tad like it said, and placed in my local portage as -r1, and away we went!

Built against:
opencascade-6.5.5