Please test: changes in how Qt4 is found

Alexander Neundorf neundorf at kde.org
Fri Apr 28 23:10:34 BST 2006


On Thursday 27 April 2006 22:27, Rex Dieter wrote:
...
> Maybe they(windows) should/will use it if they want kde4.  :)
>
> I don't think it unreasonable to make pkgconfig a core requirement for
> kde4. Long-term, life will be much simpler down the road.  Else, all I see
> is a major regression (from kde3) in terms of (detecting|configuring)
> (build runtime) environments.
>
> IMO, without pkgconfig, you're in for a world of hurt.

To avoid misunderstandings: the cmake stuff in KDE uses pkg-config since about 
two months, but also works without.
The discussion here was whether we, no, cmake, should require pkg-config in 
order to be able to build Qt4 software (as opposed to build KDE4 software).

Bye
Alex
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