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  • From: "Andrew \"ruskie\" Levstik" <ruskie AT mages.ath.cx>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Qt 4.1.1 Update
  • Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2006 22:51:59 +0100

George Sherwood wrote :

> 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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As far as trolltoch is concerned it is fixed...
Install each ALL QT into /usr/lib/qt$MAJORVORSION and symlink to
/usr/lib/qt

The ALL part goes against FHS. So I think maybe we should start putting
it to /opt completly... this makes it possible to have both installed
and switching in MOST spell via the QTDIR var...

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