[PATCH] Set default Qt directory in startkde

[Thiago Macieira]

On Monday 03 March 2008 14:11:20 David Faure wrote:
> On Sunday 02 March 2008, David Jarvie wrote:
> > Currently, startkde fails to start a KDE session when PATH doesn't
> > contain the Qt bin directory. The startkde script uses the directory
> > containing itself as the default for the KDE installation's bin
> > directory, and adds that to PATH. But it doesn't set Qt's directory.
>
> Can you remind us what the Qt bin directory is necessary for, during an end
> user's kde session?

qdbus & qdbusviewer. Sometimes, qtconfig.

But qdbus itself is run by startkde to detect whether D-Bus is started.

> > ldd $bindir/kde4-config|grep libQtCore.so
>
> I'm not sure that's portable.

It's not, but we're not caring for the non-ELF X11 systems at this point in 
time. The ELF ones should have ldd.

> > sed 's#^[^/]*\(.*\)/lib/.*$#\1#'`/bin
>
> And this makes assumptions on the way Qt is installed, doesn't it? (Not
> that I can think of a case where this wouldn't be true, but you never know
> :)

What I would recommend is simply modifying kde4-config to print the value of 
QLibraryInfo::location(QLibraryInfo::BinariesPath).

Some of the other values may be useful too:
http://doc.trolltech.com/4.4beta/qlibraryinfo.html#location


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