Re: Qt compiler tool names

[Aaron Faanes <dafrito@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 10:35 PM, Rex Dieter <rdieter@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Aaron Faanes wrote:

> I was wondering why Qt compiler tools (qmake, moc, uic, etc.) are
> installed with each name suffixed with -qt4 (qmake-qt4, moc-qt4). This
> diverges from how upstream names its tools (specifically, without qt4
> added), so it caused me a little confusion when these tools appeared to be
> missing.
>
> My solution was to add /usr/lib/qt4/bin to my PATH since this directory
> contains symlinks that use upstream's name. However, I would prefer the
> tools to be installed in /usr/bin without -qt4 appended. Is there a reason
> why this shouldn't be done?

We used the -qt4 postfix (which is a common practice among most distros
these days) to allow for a parallel-installable qt3.

Ah, I figured it was something like that. I couldn't find it using the following:

$ yum provides '*/bin/*-qt3'
Loaded plugins: auto-update-debuginfo, langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
No Matches found
$

So I guess the qt3 stuff lives in a repo I no longer have access to, perhaps?

At any rate, the GNU Autoconf Archive has a AX_HAVE_QT macro that wasn't aware of the -qt4 suffix, along with some other Fedora-specific deviations. I'm going to submit a couple patches to that project in order to make their macro work cleanly on Fedora, especially since things like -qt4 are common practice.

Thanks for the response!
 

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