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  • From: George Sherwood <pilot AT beernabeer.com>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Qt 4.1.1 Update
  • Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2006 16:45:47 -0500

On Mon, 6 Mar 2006 12:42:37 -0800 (PST)
Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us> wrote:

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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 ;)).

This message implies that TrollTech will eventually fix the problem,
but I haven't been able to find any more information.

http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2005/09/msg00338.html

George





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