On Mon, 30 Mar 2015 16:27:16 +0100 Rui Nuno Capela <rui.capela@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 03/30/2015 04:10 PM, Dale Kazakore Powell wrote: > > On 30/03/15 21:49, Rui Nuno Capela wrote: > >> On 03/30/2015 03:44 PM, Rui Nuno Capela wrote: > >>>> > >>>> OK. One must set (export) a QT_SELECT=4 or such before running > >>>> ./configure. > >>>> Since qmake never needed such an environment variable or argument > >>>> before, I do > >>>> consider this a bug. An example is that the ./configure here did not > >>>> set that > >>>> variable or supply an argument based on choices made by its qt choice > >>>> argment. > >>>> No one knew one needed it and the ./configure --help said that qt4 was > >>>> default. > >>>> > >>>> So Rui, please implement (and the default qt4) in the configure. > >>> > >>> excuse me :) > >>> > >>> qtchooser, and thus the QT_SELECT switch, is probably a debian exclusive > >>> thing, meaning that it's specific to some debian packaging policy, > >>> organization and whatever--it is NOT a Qt thing and might not apply to > >>> other distros or environments so easily, mainly because there's no > >>> qtchooser package installed nor even available. > >> > >> might be mistaken however ;) > >> > >> byee > > > > Definitely seems to be part of Qt. > > > > https://qt.gitorious.org/qt/qtchooser/source/ae5eeef85c9a818bfa6a3e03511e3935e9abe01f: > > > > http://qt-project.org/search?search=qtchooser > > > > so i was mistaken when sadd qtchooser is not a qt thing. my bad ;) > > but the rest of the excuse still applies: > > the onus of the desired/current QT_SELECT setting should be left to the > user and not hard-coded on a configure script, at least for the time being. > > byee OK, this now works for me. Although I can see your argument, it's not much help when the user is quite unaware of what the issue is. Before compiling unknown software I *always* checkout the README file (if it exists), and there is no mention there of possible contention between qt 4 & 5. Why not simply add something like this at the top: WARNING Qtractor is intended to be compiled with qt version 4 Before running config you may need to enter: export QT_SELECT=4 -- Will J Godfrey http://www.musically.me.uk Say you have a poem and I have a tune. Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
