Bug 577130 – sci-astronomy/stellarium-0.14.2 always disables TelescopeControl

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description nkurtov 2016-03-12 09:37:43 UTC]

TelescopeControl does not work in sci-astronomy/stellarium-0.14.2, the ebuild contains this comment:
# Turn off TelescopeControl since dev-qt/qtserialport isn't
# marked stable and is missing keywords besides.

The workaround is to build stellarium from head, it detects qtserialport and enables support for TelescopeControl.

Please support TelescopeControl in the ebuilds.

[Comment 1 Chris 2017-05-02 13:13:56 UTC]

cat stellarium-0.15.1.ebuild-diff.patch 
--- /usr/portage/sci-astronomy/stellarium/stellarium-0.15.1.ebuild      2017-03-20 00:23:41.000000000 +1100
+++ /usr/local/portage/sci-astronomy/stellarium/stellarium-0.15.1.ebuild        2017-04-23 23:48:29.939963707 +1000
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 LICENSE="GPL-2+"
 SLOT="0"
 KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~ppc ~ppc64 ~x86 ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux"
-IUSE="debug media nls stars"
+IUSE="debug media nls serial stars"
 
 RESTRICT="test" # There are no tests
 
@@ -34,7 +34,8 @@
        dev-qt/qtwidgets:5
        virtual/opengl
        sys-libs/zlib
-       media? ( dev-qt/qtmultimedia:5[widgets] )"
+       media? ( dev-qt/qtmultimedia:5[widgets] )
+       serial? ( dev-qt/qtserialport:5 )"
 DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
        dev-qt/qttest:5
        dev-qt/qtconcurrent:5
@@ -61,12 +62,6 @@
                        -e 's/STRING(REGEX REPLACE ".po" "" \([a-z]*\).*$/SET(\1 '"${L10N//-/_})/" \
                        po/stellarium{,-skycultures,-remotecontrol}/CMakeLists.txt || die #403647
        fi
-       # Turn off TelescopeControl since dev-qt/qtserialport isn't
-       # marked stable and is missing keywords besides.
-       sed -i \
-               -e '/SimpleDrawLine/  s:0:1:g' \
-               -e '/TelescopeControl/s:1:0:g' \
-               CMakeLists.txt || die
        use debug || append-cppflags -DQT_NO_DEBUG #415769
 }

### Patch works for me, I have telescope control ( Skywatcher SynScan v3 Dobson GoTo ) Via USB -> Serial cable I also set a serial use flag so you could pull in the qtserialport package as not everyone may or may not want the whole KDE environment . i hope this helps.

[Comment 2 Samuel Bauer 2018-02-08 20:27:44 UTC]

+1 for the telescope control via serial, I know some people that are really interested in seeing astronomical free software progressing.
The sad counterpart is that gentoo user not owning telescope are now forced to compile qtserialport. Latest, unstable, ebuilds do not expose a flag to drop telescope support.

comment #1
> I also set a serial use flag so you could pull in the qtserialport package
> as not everyone may or may not want the whole KDE environment.
> i hope this helps.

I would rather suggest 'telescope', as a self descriptive use flag name.

[Comment 3 Andreas Sturmlechner 2018-11-10 14:02:35 UTC]

0.16.0-r1 depends on dev-qt/qtserialport.