Package of the day - tea-editor

So a user reported a bug about not being able to create a desktop file in GNOME 3 (which is an upstream issue) for a text editor called TEA from TEA: news

I don’t normally package QT stuff, so I thought I would give it a whirl, look in the README and it’s just a qmake, make, make install scenario so shouldn’t be too bad. Aside from just adding a *.desktop file which isn’t a biggy.

Looking in the source there is a 64x64 sized icon, so just need to copy, convert and add as a Source(n): to the spec file, an easy job with the ImageMagick tools;


cp tea-31.0.0/icons/tea_icon_v2.png tea-editor.png
convert tea-editor.png -resize 48x48 tea-editor.png

Voila a nice 48x48 icon :slight_smile:

So fixing some of the build dependencies got the build going until it came to the install it didn’t like the standard install macro as it wanted to install directly into /usr/bin grrrr,r Oh well it’s just a binary file so lets just install manually into the build root via the install command and create our desktop file;


install -Dm0755 bin/tea %{buildroot}%{_bindir}/tea
%suse_update_desktop_file -c tea-editor "Text editor for UNIX-like systems" "" tea tea-editor Utility TextEditor

Now it all builds except the dreaded “File is compiled without RPM_OPT_FLAGS” it’s only a warning, but to ensure all the full build checks are done it needs to be enabled. Normally just adding the %{optflags} to C and CXX FLAGS is enough… but this is using qmake which generates a Makefile from a src.pro file. Ughh patches required :frowning: But some surfing on the net came up with this little gem a .qmake.cache which will add your options on the fly :slight_smile:

So, I added this to the rpm spec file in the %build section;


# Create qmake cache file to add rpm optflags
cat > .qmake.cache <<EOF
QMAKE_CFLAGS += %{optflags}
QMAKE_CXXFLAGS += %{optflags}
EOF

Now we get a nice clean build with the RPM_OPT_FLAGS set with a few build warnings, but nothing serious :slight_smile:

It’s not a bad little text editor, if you want to try it out it’s in my testing repository and can be found here for SLE 11 SP1, and openSUSE;
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