On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 02:29:00AM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 01:10:29AM +0200, Enrico Forestieri wrote:
> > Note that it is much simpler and faster building Qt4 from sources than it
> > is building LyX. I have 4.1.5, 4.2.3, and 4.3.1 installed and I configure
> > LyX for each version through a script without any hassle.
> 
> And that's with more than one million lines in Qt *.cpp, and just 148000
> in LyX. It is really a shame.

Yes, it is quite strange, but with LyX I simply do
configure; make; make install
whereas with Qt I have to write down qmake.conf and qplatformdefs.h
(and I should know what to put there) if my platform is not directly
supported.

> PS: Wonder why?

autotools? You can't eat your cake and have it ;-)

-- 
Enrico

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