On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, Brian Smith wrote: > > Could anybody throw me a bone and let me know what I need > > to do to get qt to compile with the new Xft? > > I've just finished getting the latest qt3 from Cooker to > compile with Xft2. I had to make some tweaks to the > configure script to get it all to play nicely together. > > Here's what you need to do, assuming you've already > installed the Mandrake source RPM: > > 1) Copy the attached qt-3.1.0-fix-xft.patch.bz2 file to > /usr/src/RPM/SOURCES
I hope you are not building as root (bad idea in general), and it's a bad idea to encourage others to do so, so maybe when referring to rpm directories, you can refer to them by their macro name: cp qt-2.1.0-fix-xfs.patch.bz2 `rpm --eval "%_sourcedir"` (BTW, I mean in general , to the list, not you individually) > > 2) cd to /usr/src/RPM/SPECS and apply the attached > qt3.spec.patch.bz2 file to your qt3.spec file: > # bzip2 -dc qt3.spec.patch.bz2 | patch -p0 cd `rpm --eval "%_specdir" > > 3) Rebuild the packages from the new spec file: > # rpm -ba qt3.spec > > 4) Profit!!! Well, maybe not. The resulting packages work > OK for me, your mileage may vary. I'm using the latest > freetype-devel, libXft2-devel, and fontconfig-devel > packages from Cooker. > > -- > Brian Smith > -- |----------------Registered Linux User #182071-----------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x121 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7
