Re: [ANN] Qtractor 0.6.6 - The Lazy Tachyon is out!

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On 03/30/2015 05:27 PM, Will Godfrey wrote:
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


because qtractor is not really intended to be strictly compiled with qt4. it can be compiled to qt5 as well, only that the former is still the recommended way (as is the default on configure).

one other problem is that the possible values for QT_SELECT might not be so simple as either "4" or "5" (is it?). it probably depends on what you have installed and whether it's provided and available on your distro. for instance, my distro (opensuse) has no such thing, maybe just yet. qtchooser doesn't even come with the official/stock/vanilla qt5 binary packaging (as from qt-project.org and qt.io) which are the ones i've been testing my qt5 builds. maybe it's considered an extra, an ad-hoc utility, targeted to distro packagers... i can't really tell.

byee
--
rncbc aka. Rui Nuno Capela
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