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I do not know whether somebody is maintaining the CVS tree for Linux...
I has become a bit complicated to build Celestia as many files necessary for building are looking as they are completely obsolete (can be GCC, libtools, makefiles, uncontrolled dependencies - lua, spice, theora, etc.), with regard to the latest distributions.
It is not a big issue for me to spot the many dead ends and edit the relevant files in the tree to end up with a successful build.
It can be a real pain for those who have little clue about the changing prerequisites for the build environment.
I will make available a KDE/GCC 4.1 and above, lua 5.0, Nvidia Glx executable on my ftp, built from the latest workable CVS.
If there is some interest, I will maintain this service.
The latest executable is available there:

http://jmmi.club.fr/celestia/linux/celestia

Please check your Celestia environment for required libraries and dependencies:


If this is useful, it could be considered for a sticky.
REMINDER: this a build for KDE 3.5.xx, Xorg 7.xx, GCC 4.1.xx, lua 5.xx with latest Nvidia driver ONLY.
Enjoy

Boux,

My understanding is that Celestia v1.5.0 uses Lua v5.1, not 5.0.

Hi, Selden
Actually, it works with both.
There is a fallback trick, well, a ugly hack.
For some reasons, I keep lua 5.0 on my system in parallel with 5.1 for compatibility with another project.
Celestia 1.5.xx builds without a hiccup.
Have a look at the ldd output...

Supposedly, however, there are incompatibilities between the two versions of Lua. Since the Windows version of Celestia v1.5.0 includes Lua v5.1, I suspect that there will be scripts that won't work with copies of Linux Celestia that have been built with Lua v5.0. This could result in quite a bit of confusion.

Boux wrote:I do not know whether somebody is maintaining the CVS tree for Linux...

Boux,

yes Christophe usually keeps Celestia-KDE in pretty good status. I recompile Celestia-KDE whenever there was a new commit to CVS and never have any problems with it. Notably since Toti eliminated most compiler warnings. I am using Gcc 4.1.x and KDE 3.5.5. Also Celestia-GTK and Celestia-Gnome compile without any problems from CVS. The latter are well maintained by Pat Suwalsky.

Of course I use Lua 5.1 and Spice.

(SuSE 10.1 + MANY updates via 'smart').

Bye Fridger

Actually, I was not talking about KDE specifically.
I was talking about the files requested by autoconf etc.
On this brand new Mandriva 2007 install, I had to replace a number of them with more recent ones from libtool.
Anyway, a new build from latest CVS for KDE is available in my signature.

Boux wrote:Actually, I was not talking about KDE specifically.
I was talking about the files requested by autoconf etc.
On this brand new Mandriva 2007 install, I had to replace a number of them with more recent ones from libtool.

I'm a bit surprised. Doesn't Celestia build with autoconf 2.5 and automake 1.8?

Christophe wrote:

Boux wrote:Actually, I was not talking about KDE specifically.
I was talking about the files requested by autoconf etc.
On this brand new Mandriva 2007 install, I had to replace a number of them with more recent ones from libtool.

I'm a bit surprised. Doesn't Celestia build with autoconf 2.5 and automake 1.8?

It did not build out of the box on this system (automake 1.9.6 and autoconf 2.59)

Boux wrote:

Christophe wrote:

Boux wrote:Actually, I was not talking about KDE specifically.
I was talking about the files requested by autoconf etc.
On this brand new Mandriva 2007 install, I had to replace a number of them with more recent ones from libtool.

I'm a bit surprised. Doesn't Celestia build with autoconf 2.5 and automake 1.8?

It did not build out of the box on this system (automake 1.9.6 and autoconf 2.59)

Boux,

I am using automake 1.96 and autoconf 2.59 and Celestia-kde builds out of the box from CVS. So it seems your initial problems were related to Mandriva and not to Celestia.

Bye Fridger

t00fri wrote:

Boux wrote:

Christophe wrote:

Boux wrote:Actually, I was not talking about KDE specifically.
I was talking about the files requested by autoconf etc.
On this brand new Mandriva 2007 install, I had to replace a number of them with more recent ones from libtool.

I'm a bit surprised. Doesn't Celestia build with autoconf 2.5 and automake 1.8?

It did not build out of the box on this system (automake 1.9.6 and autoconf 2.59)

Boux,

I am using automake 1.96 and autoconf 2.59 and Celestia-kde builds out of the box from CVS. So it seems your initial problems were related to Mandriva and not to Celestia.

Bye Fridger

I am pretty sure you are mostly right.
I choose Mandriva only because it is the only distrib which would recognize properly most of my hardware combination (C2 duo i965+ich8r+jmicron raid).
By the way, I tried Suse, Ubuntu, Fedora and a couple others, more obscure distribs.
On a sidenote, I think I have spotted a problem with config.sub which looks like it is puzzled by this very hardware config.
There are a lot of threads at many Linux forums about the issue.
The hardware is a little step ahead of the os, apparently.
Even 6.18 kernels and above, which were supposed to clear these issues have problems with this latest intel stuff.
It is not a big deal, anyway, after some hacking and tweaking, Celestia builds happily.
That is the Linux fun after all.
One can easily go have a look under the hood and tune and customize the engine so that it runs according to one's need!

A new build is available (link in sig).
It has been built for KDE with Theora and Lua 5.1.1 support.
It also runs with Gnome on this rig without a glitch.