Date: Mon, 08 Nov 1999 11:26:48 -0500 (EST) From: Will Andrews <andrews@TECHNOLOGIST.COM> To: (Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami) <asami@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: se@FreeBSD.ORG, "R. Imura" <imura@cs.titech.ac.jp>, pfgiffun@bachue.usc.unal.edu.co, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Possible change in the Qt port. Message-ID: <XFMail.991108112648.andrews@TECHNOLOGIST.COM> In-Reply-To: <vqcaeopmjyb.fsf@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>
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On 08-Nov-99 Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami wrote:
> Ok, but what does that have to do with moving the include files from
> one segregated subdirectory to another?
It means that Qt 1.4x and 2.x's QTDIRs would need to be separate. I.e., they
can't both be placed in ${X11BASE}/lib/qt (as per Pedro's suggestion), unless
you really want to complicate things (in terms of hier(7)). I just think it's
better organization to keep them separate, but it is possible to put both of
their libraries and includes (in seperate directories) under ${X11BASE}/lib/qt.
However, take note that programs' configure scripts normally look for Qt
libraries in $(QTDIR)/lib, moc in $(QTDIR)/bin, and so forth.
> What the jell are you talking about? You mean this one?
>
>> man 7 hier
> :
> X11R6/ X11R6 distribution executables, libraries, etc (op-
> tional).
> :
Yes, and its subdirectory assignments. lib/ is described as the designation for
libraries only.. see other email about QTDIR stuff.
> * I think the BIGGEST problem with Qt / KDE is the way KDE has its stuff
> * installed into ${LOCALBASE} instead of ${X11BASE}, like Qt does. Many
> ports
> * depend on both Qt and KDE libraries/includes, making it extremely
> difficult for
> * a port to know where to install things.
>
> Hmm.
You do realize that almost everything based on Qt seems to be based on KDE too,
right? :-)
> I believe the reason why it was put into ${LOCALBASE} was because the
> default Makefiles that come with KDE want to install into
> ${LOCALBASE}/kde which Stefan (KDE maintainer) changed to
> ${LOCALBASE}. Is that the only reason why it's in ${LOCALBASE} and
> not ${X11BASE}, Stefan?
I myself would have checked the mailing list archives for an answer to this,
but I believe an up-to-date explanation is in order (or an update to the KDE
ports :-). This is why I suggested this.
Such KDE/Qt-based programs also seem to look for KDE stuff in ${X11BASE}, so we
would only need to be changing patches to the KDE ports, if any (rather than
patching every godforsaken KDE-based program to make them look in ${LOCALBASE}).
By the way, what the hell does "jell" mean? I need to get my dictionary. :-)
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