Steve Litt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

>> > The QT4* values are (contrary to Qt 3 ones) _not_ needed, neither by
>> > a distribution nor by LyX.
>>
>> Could you explain why?
>
> I'm not sure which statement you'd like explained. The statement I made 
> was "After what I went through, I'd recommend that someone strongarm ALL 
> variables to the Qt4 values, and not leave anything to chance.", so let me 
> explain that one:

It was rather Andre's statement.

> If, by leaving an environment variable to its default, a qt3 value sneaks in, 
> the troubleshooting necessary to find and fix the problem would exceed by a 
> factor of 100 the time it would take to strongarm every variable to its qt4 
> value. Therefore, whether or not the default values *should* produce the 
> right result, I'd recommend strongarming it.

I personally would not recommend this value, since the best solution
in the long run is to try what is supposed to work and report a bug
when it does not. In this case --with-qt4-dir=/some/dir is all you
should need.

JMarc

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