[aur-general] qt4 replaces qt

Yichao Yu yyc1992 at gmail.com
Wed Feb 27 22:19:33 EST 2013


On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 6:14 PM, Andrea Scarpino <andrea at archlinux.org> wrote:
> On Wednesday 27 February 2013 16:21:24 you wrote:
>> When you install both qt5-base and qt4, qmake will refers to the 5.x
>> version. To 'force' Qt 4.x, you can use the qmake4 symlink. There's also
>> moc-qt4, uic- qt4 and rcc-qt4. We provide these symlinks as they are used
>> by cmake and by the configure scripts to locate qt4.

This should probably be done for all package that links to qt
including those that are not directly depending on qt.

>
> Please maintainers fix your PKGBUILDs so they build on systems with both qt4
> and qt5-base installed; when your PKGBUILD needs qt4 and:
> * use qmake, you can replace it with qmake4
> * use cmake, you can add -DQT_QMAKE_EXECUTABLE=qmake4 to the cmake options
>
> Cheers
>
> --
> Andrea
> Arch Linux Developer


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