[aur-general] qt4 replaces qt

Yichao Yu yyc1992 at gmail.com
Wed Feb 27 22:37:01 EST 2013


On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 10:19 PM, Yichao Yu <yyc1992 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

After testing the current kde PKGBUILD's (by felixonmars), it is clear
that any package that links to qt need to change their PKGBUILD if the
situation is not changing. Especially ALL kde packages (well probably
not including wallpapers etc....)

>
>>
>> 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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