[SM-Discuss] Qt 4.1.1 Update
Eric Sandall
eric at sandall.us
Mon Mar 6 15:42:37 EST 2006
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On Mon, 6 Mar 2006, Mads Laursen wrote:
> On 03/03/06 20.26, George Sherwood wrote:
> [snip]
>> I saw some forum messages where people where calling a script prior to
>> building a qt4 program and changing the names of all the binaries
>> depending on what version they wanted to use to build. This didn't seem
>> like such a great idea to me since you would be all changing names in
>> the /usr/bin directory directly from a spell.
>
> I think the best solution I've seen is to put the binaries somewhere
> out of the way (/opt/qt4 or whereever) and the make stuff like
> /usr/bin/qmake scripts that looks at say a file in /etc/sysconfig with
> an environment variable to override that (perhaps even a per-user
> dot-file in between), and then does 'exec $QT_PATH/qmake "$@"' -- along
> with whatever other shenanigans is needed to make the whole thing
> transparent.
That could work as well, though I'd like to avoid it if at all
possible (a.k.a. TrollTech fixes it ;)).
- -sandalle
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