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+#!/bin/bash
+
+RELEASE=krita-3.0.99.90
+
+# Enter a CentOS 6 chroot (you could use other methods)
+# git clone https://github.com/probonopd/AppImageKit.git
+# ./AppImageKit/build.sh 
+# sudo ./AppImageKit/AppImageAssistant.AppDir/testappimage /isodevice/boot/iso/CentOS-6.5-x86_64-LiveCD.iso bash
+
+# Halt on errors
+set -e
+
+# Be verbose
+set -x
+
+# Now we are inside CentOS 6
+grep -r "CentOS release 6" /etc/redhat-release || exit 1
+
+# If we are running inside Travis CI, then we want to build Krita
+# and we remove the $DO_NOT_BUILD_KRITA environment variable
+# that was used in the process of generating the Docker image.
+# Also we do not want to download and build the dependencies every
+# time we build Krita on travis in the docker image. In order to
+# use newer dependencies, we re-build the docker image instead.
+#unset DO_NOT_BUILD_KRITA
+#NO_DOWNLOAD=1
+
+# clean up
+rm -rf /out/*
+rm -rf /krita.appdir
+
+# qjsonparser, used to add metadata to the plugins needs to work in a en_US.UTF-8 environment. That's
+# not always set correctly in CentOS 6.7
+export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
+export LANG=en_us.UTF-8
+
+# Determine which architecture should be built
+if [[ "$(arch)" = "i686" || "$(arch)" = "x86_64" ]] ; then
+  ARCH=$(arch)
+else
+  echo "Architecture could not be determined"
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+# if the library path doesn't point to our usr/lib, linking will be broken and we won't find all deps either
+export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib64/:/usr/lib:/krita.appdir/usr/lib
+
+cd /
+
+# Prepare the install location
+rm -rf /krita.appdir/ || true
+mkdir -p /krita.appdir/usr/bin
+
+# make sure lib and lib64 are the same thing
+mkdir -p /krita.appdir/usr/lib
+cd  /krita.appdir/usr
+ln -s lib lib64
+
+# Use the new compiler
+. /opt/rh/devtoolset-3/enable
+
+# fetch and build krita
+cd /
+wget http://files.kde.org/krita/3/source/$RELEASE.tar.xz
+tar -xf $RELEASE.tar.xz
+cd /krita_build
+rm -rf *
+cmake3 ../$RELEASE \I
+    -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH=/krita.appdir/usr \
+    -DDEFINE_NO_DEPRECATED=1 \
+    -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo \
+    -DPACKAGERS_BUILD=1 \
+    -DBUILD_TESTING=FALSE \
+    -DKDE4_BUILD_TESTS=FALSE \
+    -DHAVE_MEMORY_LEAK_TRACKER=FALSE
+make -j4 install
+
+cd /krita.appdir
+
+# FIXME: How to find out which subset of plugins is really needed? I used strace when running the binary
+cp -r /usr/plugins ./usr/bin/
+# copy the Qt translation
+cp -r /usr/translations ./usr
+
+cp $(ldconfig -p | grep libsasl2.so.2 | cut -d ">" -f 2 | xargs) ./usr/lib/
+cp $(ldconfig -p | grep libGL.so.1 | cut -d ">" -f 2 | xargs) ./usr/lib/ # otherwise segfaults!?
+cp $(ldconfig -p | grep libGLU.so.1 | cut -d ">" -f 2 | xargs) ./usr/lib/ # otherwise segfaults!?
+# Fedora 23 seemed to be missing SOMETHING from the Centos 6.7. The only message was:
+# This application failed to start because it could not find or load the Qt platform plugin "xcb".
+# Setting export QT_DEBUG_PLUGINS=1 revealed the cause.
+# QLibraryPrivate::loadPlugin failed on "/usr/lib64/qt5/plugins/platforms/libqxcb.so" : 
+# "Cannot load library /usr/lib64/qt5/plugins/platforms/libqxcb.so: (/lib64/libEGL.so.1: undefined symbol: drmGetNodeTypeFromFd)"
+# Which means that we have to copy libEGL.so.1 in too
+cp $(ldconfig -p | grep libEGL.so.1 | cut -d ">" -f 2 | xargs) ./usr/lib/ # Otherwise F23 cannot load the Qt platform plugin "xcb"
+# let's not copy xcb itself, that breaks on dri3 systems https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=360552
+#cp $(ldconfig -p | grep libxcb.so.1 | cut -d ">" -f 2 | xargs) ./usr/lib/ 
+cp $(ldconfig -p | grep libfreetype.so.6 | cut -d ">" -f 2 | xargs) ./usr/lib/ # For Fedora 20
+
+ldd usr/bin/krita | grep "=>" | awk '{print $3}' | xargs -I '{}' cp -v '{}' ./usr/lib || true
+#ldd usr/lib64/krita/*.so  | grep "=>" | awk '{print $3}' | xargs -I '{}' cp -v '{}' ./usr/lib || true
+#ldd usr/lib64/plugins/imageformats/*.so  | grep "=>" | awk '{print $3}' | xargs -I '{}' cp -v '{}' ./usr/lib || true
+
+ldd usr/bin/plugins/platforms/libqxcb.so | grep "=>" | awk '{print $3}'  |  xargs -I '{}' cp -v '{}' ./usr/lib || true
+
+# Copy in the indirect dependencies
+FILES=$(find . -type f -executable)
+
+for FILE in $FILES ; do
+	ldd "${FILE}" | grep "=>" | awk '{print $3}' | xargs -I '{}' cp -v '{}' usr/lib || true
+done
+
+#DEPS=""
+#for FILE in $FILES ; do
+#  ldd "${FILE}" | grep "=>" | awk '{print $3}' | xargs -I '{}' echo '{}' > DEPSFILE
+#done
+#DEPS=$(cat DEPSFILE  |sort | uniq)
+#for FILE in $DEPS ; do
+#  if [ -f $FILE ] ; then
+#    echo $FILE
+#    cp --parents -rfL $FILE ./
+#  fi
+#done
+#rm -f DEPSFILE
+
+
+# The following are assumed to be part of the base system
+rm -f usr/lib/libcom_err.so.2 || true
+rm -f usr/lib/libcrypt.so.1 || true
+rm -f usr/lib/libdl.so.2 || true
+rm -f usr/lib/libexpat.so.1 || true
+#rm -f usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1 || true
+rm -f usr/lib/libgcc_s.so.1 || true
+rm -f usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 || true
+rm -f usr/lib/libgpg-error.so.0 || true
+rm -f usr/lib/libgssapi_krb5.so.2 || true
+rm -f usr/lib/libgssapi.so.3 || true
+rm -f usr/lib/libhcrypto.so.4 || true
+rm -f usr/lib/libheimbase.so.1 || true
+rm -f usr/lib/libheimntlm.so.0 || true
+rm -f usr/lib/libhx509.so.5 || true
+rm -f usr/lib/libICE.so.6 || true
+rm -f usr/lib/libidn.so.11 || true
+rm -f usr/lib/libk5crypto.so.3 || true
+rm -f usr/lib/libkeyutils.so.1 || true
+rm -f usr/lib/libkrb5.so.26 || true
+rm -f usr/lib/libkrb5.so.3 || true
+rm -f usr/lib/libkrb5support.so.0 || true
+# rm -f usr/lib/liblber-2.4.so.2 || true # needed for debian wheezy
+# rm -f usr/lib/libldap_r-2.4.so.2 || true # needed for debian wheezy
+rm -f usr/lib/libm.so.6 || true
+rm -f usr/lib/libp11-kit.so.0 || true
+rm -f usr/lib/libpcre.so.3 || true
+rm -f usr/lib/libpthread.so.0 || true
+rm -f usr/lib/libresolv.so.2 || true
+rm -f usr/lib/libroken.so.18 || true
+rm -f usr/lib/librt.so.1 || true
+rm -f usr/lib/libsasl2.so.2 || true
+rm -f usr/lib/libSM.so.6 || true
+rm -f usr/lib/libusb-1.0.so.0 || true
+rm -f usr/lib/libuuid.so.1 || true
+rm -f usr/lib/libwind.so.0 || true
+rm -f usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.* || true
+
+# Remove these libraries, we need to use the system versions; this means 11.04 is not supported (12.04 is our baseline)
+rm -f usr/lib/libGL.so.* || true
+rm -f usr/lib/libdrm.so.* || true
+rm -f usr/lib/libX11.so.* || true
+#rm -f usr/lib/libz.so.1 || true
+
+# These seem to be available on most systems but not Ubuntu 11.04
+# rm -f usr/lib/libffi.so.6 usr/lib/libGL.so.1 usr/lib/libglapi.so.0 usr/lib/libxcb.so.1 usr/lib/libxcb-glx.so.0 || true
+
+# Delete potentially dangerous libraries
+rm -f usr/lib/libstdc* usr/lib/libgobject* usr/lib/libc.so.* || true
+rm -f usr/lib/libxcb.so.1
+
+# Do NOT delete libX* because otherwise on Ubuntu 11.04:
+# loaded library "Xcursor" malloc.c:3096: sYSMALLOc: Assertion (...) Aborted
+
+# We don't bundle the developer stuff
+rm -rf usr/include || true
+rm -rf usr/lib/cmake3 || true
+rm -rf usr/lib/pkgconfig || true
+rm -rf usr/share/ECM/ || true
+rm -rf usr/share/gettext || true
+rm -rf usr/share/pkgconfig || true
+
+strip usr/lib/kritaplugins/* usr/bin/* usr/lib/* || true
+
+# Since we set /krita.appdir as the prefix, we need to patch it away too (FIXME)
+# Probably it would be better to use /app as a prefix because it has the same length for all apps
+cd usr/ ; find . -type f -exec sed -i -e 's|/krita.appdir/usr/|./././././././././|g' {} \; ; cd  ..
+
+# On openSUSE Qt is picking up the wrong libqxcb.so
+# (the one from the system when in fact it should use the bundled one) - is this a Qt bug?
+# Also, Krita has a hardcoded /usr which we patch away
+cd usr/ ; find . -type f -exec sed -i -e 's|/usr|././|g' {} \; ; cd ..
+
+# We do not bundle this, so let's not search that inside the AppImage. 
+# Fixes "Qt: Failed to create XKB context!" and lets us enter text
+sed -i -e 's|././/share/X11/|/usr/share/X11/|g' ./usr/bin/plugins/platforminputcontexts/libcomposeplatforminputcontextplugin.so
+sed -i -e 's|././/share/X11/|/usr/share/X11/|g' ./usr/lib/libQt5XcbQpa.so.5
+
+# Workaround for:
+# D-Bus library appears to be incorrectly set up;
+# failed to read machine uuid: Failed to open
+# The file is more commonly in /etc/machine-id
+# sed -i -e 's|/var/lib/dbus/machine-id|//././././etc/machine-id|g' ./usr/lib/libdbus-1.so.3
+# or
+rm -f ./usr/lib/libdbus-1.so.3 || true
+
+cp ../AppImageKit/AppRun .
+cp ./usr/share/applications/org.kde.krita.desktop krita.desktop
+cp /krita/krita/pics/app/64-apps-calligrakrita.png calligrakrita.png
+
+# replace krita with the lib-checking startup script.
+#cd /krita.appdir/usr/bin
+#mv krita krita.real
+#wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/boudewijnrempt/AppImages/master/recipes/krita/krita
+#chmod a+rx krita
+cd / 
+
+APP=krita
+
+# Source functions
+wget -q https://github.com/probonopd/AppImages/raw/master/functions.sh -O ./functions.sh
+. ./functions.sh
+
+# Install desktopintegration in usr/bin/krita.wrapper -- feel free to edit it
+cd /krita.appdir
+get_desktopintegration krita
+
+cd /
+
+VER=$(grep "#define KRITA_VERSION_STRING" krita_build/libs/version/kritaversion.h | cut -d '"' -f 2)
+cd /krita
+REVISION=$(git rev-parse --short HEAD)
+cd ..
+VERSION=$VER-$REVISION
+VERSION="$(sed s/\ /-/g <<<$VERSION)"
+echo $VERSION
+
+if [[ "$ARCH" = "x86_64" ]] ; then
+	APPIMAGE=$APP"-"$VERSION"-x86_64.appimage"
+fi
+if [[ "$ARCH" = "i686" ]] ; then
+	APPIMAGE=$APP"-"$VERSION"-i386.appimage"
+fi
+echo $APPIMAGE
+
+mkdir -p /out
+
+rm -f /out/*.AppImage || true
+AppImageKit/AppImageAssistant.AppDir/package /krita.appdir/ /out/$APPIMAGE
+
+chmod a+rwx /out/$APPIMAGE # So that we can edit the AppImage outside of the Docker container
+
+cd /krita.appdir
+mv AppRun krita
+cd /
+mv krita.appdir $APP"-"$VERSION"-x86_64
+tar -czf $APP"-"$VERSION"-x86_64.tgz $APP"-"$VERSION"-x86_64