I run 14.2 and I have been trying to install qt-creator off the slackbuild.

At first the build was failing because qt5-5.11 was required and the latest qt5 package I could find was alien's qt5-5.9 so I downloaded qt5-5.15 from alien's current repository.

Now it is failing because my glibc vesion is too low. My version is 2-23 which is what slackware 14.2 patches is at.

How do I proceed from here? It seems to me that the version of qt-creator on slackbuilds cannot actually be installed in 14.2.

Thanks

I have qt-creator successfully running on my 14.2 box.

Ouch. Mixing current and 14.2 is a recipe for problems. Which is why you're getting the glibc problems. AlienBob's qt5-5.15 was compiled on current which is at glibc 2.30. On 14.2 glibc is at version 2.23 from way back in 2017.

Way forward

1. Uninstall alienbob's qt5-5.15.
2. Grab the Slackbuild for qt5 from slackbuilds.org which is at 5.12.8.
3. Grab the qt5 prereqs libxbcommon, meson, python3, qbs and ninja from slackbuilds.org and compile and install in the correct order. Check to make sure I've quoted them all.
4. Compile qt5 and install. On my machine qt5 alone takes about 2.5 hours
5. Compile qt-creator.

Good luck.

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Thanks.
I had forgotten why I didn't try slackbuilds in the first place. Now I see that qt5 has been compiling for ages and I suspect that I am going to run out of space in tmp for it. I'll have to find some space elsewhere. I use a 4GB ramdisk for tmp. Would 8GB be enough for this compile?

I have a large partition for /home that has 251G of available storage and smaller partitions for swap and the rest. The rest is /boot, /var, /usr, /tmp, etc and has 29G available space.

I never compile in /tmp, my /tmp is way too small.

I have a separate user /home/packages which includes the directory /home/packages/tmp/SBo where I do most of my compiling.

To allow you to gauge where your compile has got to my compile of qt5

took 2hr15min to compile and package
The log file size grew to 81,225,776
The log file contained 320,822 lines of which the first 309,253 lines were consumed by expanding the tar ball and the config/make, the rest was for packaging

My processor is an i7-4770 and I had 16Gb of memory.

Thanks. Qt5 and qt-creator now installed.
Compiling qt5 took nearly 5 hours on my 8 year old i7!