#6027: Poppler instructions
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Reporter: chris@… | Owner: bdubbs@…
Type: enhancement | Status: assigned
Priority: normal | Milestone: 7.7
Component: BOOK | Version: SVN
Severity: normal | Resolution:
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Comment (by fo):
The sentence "The book's instructions for Poppler could use some
refinement" is not necessary, but displays judgment the author is making
about somebody else.
When the modifications were introduced,
[http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/ticket/5600#comment:2], the ticket
was left open:
{{{
Leaving open until tomorrow, waiting for eventual feedback.
Possibly fixed at r14412.
}}}
There was no feedback, until now.
The revision was provoked by criticism to the instructions, which had in
words, what is now in tests. It was written that the instructions were
very confusing.
The logic during the revision was how to build a script that would work
for any user with both qt or only one, in which case this only one could
be at /opt or /usr.
Qt5 is separate, due to the form of the fist set of tests for Qt4. It
could be reversed, first consider the cases using Qt5, then separate Qt4.
The sentence:
"If you have both Qt versions, run source setqt4 before configure to build
with qt4 support, or source setqt5 for qt5 support"
does not contemplate the case where you want to build with qt4 and then
with qt5.
It took about a day figuring out which set of tests would give the right
results for all cases:
user has
only qt4 in /user
only qt4 in /opt
only qt5 in /user
only qt5 in /opt
both qt4 and qt5
versus
installing poppler with
only qt4
only qt5
with qt4 and qt5
The instructions now solves the problem about what to do in any case (it's
hoped) so the user would not commit an error.
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