> On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 5:14 AM, Marius Cirsta <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 4:58 AM, Michel Hermier <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>>> On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 2:12 AM, Michel Hermier
>>>> <[email protected]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>  I've looked at the qt4 Frugalbuild and right now we seem not
>>>>>> generate
>>>>>> any packages for qt4 examples and demos ? It seems there's a Fuse
>>>>>> $USE_DEMOS that's not set in the Frugalbuild from what I can tell.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Any special reason for this ? It would be nice to have them in a
>>>>>> separate package.
>>>>>
>>>>> Yes it takes ages to build and doesn't bring *anything* valuable (if
>>>>> you
>>>>> know how to program qt). So it was disabled on purpose and proposed
>>>>> for
>>>>> user as a USE flag for these reasons.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  I don't think they're even built, the examples at least . And how
>>>> much does it really take to copy some some files ?
>>>>
>>>>  I think that maybe not all Frugalware users are gurus in Qt
>>>> programming and some really actually need the examples or demos.
>>>>
>>>>  Yes, I changed the USE flag to y and rebuilt just to get a demos
>>>> package. Feels like I'm using Gentoo again.
>>>>
>>>>  Seriously though , can't we please have a qt4 demos package ?
>>>
>>> Yes we can, but I'll have to look at it, and since the package has a
>>> huge
>>> SBU it will take me at least 1 or 2 days to check the split and
>>> potential
>>> automagic splitting breakage.
>>>
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>>
>>  Good , it's nice to have the examples, comes in handy sometimes.
>> Thanks. It's not urgent or anything , I built it myself and all went
>> well. Well not at first because I built it with USE=n , then set the
>> USE to y and then built it again. That didn't work.
>>  With a clean build of qt4 though everything seems fine, I'll install
>> the packages and see if QtCreator can find the examples then.
>>  By the way it took less then 1 hour to build on my Core 2 Duo @ 3200
>> ( actually something like 30 min ).
>>
>> I also compiled Qt with rasterizer as default to see how that goes.
>> There's been talk that it's going to be default in Qt 4.8 and I do
>> have some nasty rendering glitches that happened with both ATI and
>> Nvidia cards. I think we talked about it before. Worst of all is if
>> effects are disabled in KDE and you shut down. I'm guessing they were
>> cause by the latest Xorg change.
>>
>> Going a little off-topic here but could you please look at the Akonadi
>> thread when you have time. You had some good remarks the last time and
>> I tried to fix that. If all is well we could close that issue too.
>>
>
> One other thing that I forgot about :
>
> In addition to
>
>    Fsplit $pkgname-demos /usr/share/doc/$pkgname/examples
>
>  I think there should also be a
>
>   Fsplit $pkgname-demos /usr/share/doc/$pkgname/demos
>
> line added. It is after all called the demos package and I see no
> reason why the demos can't be copied and the demosdir is set :
> -demosdir /usr/share/doc/$pkgname/demos . It's just the the split then
> omits it.

Thanks it avoided me one compilation round to discover that ;)

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