QEdje scriptengine cannot be built + PATCH

Alexander Neundorf neundorf at kde.org
Sat Jan 3 17:25:16 CET 2009


On Saturday 03 January 2009, you wrote:
> On Saturday 03 January 2009 15:42:06 Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> > On Saturday 03 January 2009, Joseph Wenninger wrote:
> > > My basic problem was that qzion.h and qedje.h and the libraries where
> > > not correctly found, if they where not in the same prefix.
> > >
> > > If there are upstream packages of qedje/qzion with the  patch applied
> > > we can remove the check for eet again anytime, but till then I think we
> > > should keep that additional check in
> >
> > I think so too.
> > If something else is broken and we want to use it nevertheless, we should
> > try to make it work anyway.
> > Try telling a customer that it's somebody else's fault if your product
> > doesn't work, he will just go and use something else which works instead.
> > We give it to them to use it, so we are kind of responsible that it
> > actually does work.
>
> Well.. it stopped working for me with the recent commits, but well, I guess
> we can just keep doing distro patching of kde - even though I don't like
> it.

Me neither.

It should be possible to come up with a test which can be put into 
FindQEdje.cmake to detect whether the extra stuff is necessary or not.
Using check_cxx_source_compiles() or check_function_exists() or something like 
this.

Can you help with that ?
(I know nothing about QEdje)

Alex


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