Freeze exemption for PA integration into Phonon

[Michael Jansen]

On Wednesday 09 December 2009 19:10:50 Thomas Lübking wrote:
> Am Wednesday 09 December 2009 schrieb Michael Jansen:
> > > > It's not too much of a problem to:
> > > >   1. Compile Qt sans-phonon
> > > >   2. Compile Phonon
> > > >   3. Recompile Qt + Phonon
> >
> > What is it i gain by step 3? Noone really explained that. Do i recompile
> > qt with -no-phonon here again?
> 
> You DON'T
> This /would/ be a way to compile Qt on an external Phonon, but currently Qt
> ships it's phonon. (as Qt "relies" on Phonon and Phonon relies on Qt)
> 
> So you
> - compile Qt with -phonon
> (i.e. don't touch the phonon settings and Qt will compile it) to have Qt
> Phonon support (for later on)
> - Then you compile phonon from/with kdesupport (to get a recent version)
>  and have it replace the Qt variant by either
>    ° redirecting the PREFIX or
>    ° copy/symlink it by hand (maybe also run "sudo ldconfig")
> 
> As long as kdesupport phonon is BC to Qt Phonon, everything works...

I understand the solution. But which problem is solved in contrast to

1. compiling qt without phonon
2. compiling kdesupport/phonon

Mike