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[Sukneet Basuta <sukneet AT gmail.com>]

On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 11:43 AM, Treeve Jelbert <treeve AT scarlet.be> wrote:

for some time I have been building qt5 and bits of kde5 locally.

In order to avoid conflicts I needed to separate both sets of files.

I therefore modified qt4 to install to /opt/qt4 and put all the kde4 stuff there
as well.
qt5 already installs to /opt/qt5.

This all works well for me, but I think that eventually a similar change will
be needed in the main grimoire.

This is mainly a change to qt4_cmake_build and qt4_build in FUNCTIONS and some
changes to the qt4 spell.
Building anything which depends on qt4 should automatically use the new
location.

Existing installed programs should work if there is an appropriate entry in
/etc/ld.so.conf


Any thoughts about this?

Most people will not be concerned with qt5 for a long time, so a gradual
transition should be possible.


My systems are already setup this way, so it will difficult for me to test the
transition in mixed mode.

I haven't compiled qt5 from the grimoire yet, but is it needed to move qt4? qt4 already installs to it owns dir in pretty much all cases (I think the only exception is the include dir, but I haven't checked).

Personally, I don't want the distro supplied version of Qt to be installed into /opt, but that's mostly because I occasionally have a git build of Qt in there. However, if the move is needed, then I don't have any objections.