Hi,

On Jan 25, 2010, at 6:35 AM, ext Victor Sardina wrote:

> Eike:
> 
> I want to happily report that I pulled all the latest commits to the
> 4.6-stable branch and recompiled both, Qt and Qt-Creator under Snow
> Leopard (with -cocoa). It looks like you guys took care of the mouse
> click glitches and probably a lot more: everything appears to work as we
> expect it to.
> 
> I also have everything recompiled under RedHat (RHEL5) and it works
> flawlessly, at least within the limits of my ignorance, namely, as long
> as you don't reach my incompetence level...:-)
> 
> I wouldn't mind trying it under Solaris as well, except that compiling
> Qt in one of those servers takes like 16 hours...and besides, I can't
> afford messing up one of those systems.
> 
> Thank you to all of you for the great work you do.
> 
> Victor
> 
> PS:
> 
> A semi-dumb question: What Qt branch should we compile that still allows
> us to build Qt-Creator while getting the latest Qt goodies as well?
> 
> I have settled for the 4.6-stable branch in this case (in has worked in
> all platforms I have tried it), but maybe another branch seems more
> appropriate?
> 
> Do you have a description of the currently available git branches?

4.6 should be quite stable, 4.6-stable is always a little bit behind for not so 
much gain nowadays.

If you want to check out the newest fancy Qt API's, and are not afraid of one 
or the other glitch you can also use master. Don't use master-stable.

++ Eike

> Eike Ziller wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> On Jan 2, 2010, at 1:59 AM, ext Victor Sardina wrote:
>> 
>>> Fellows:
>>> 
>>> I upgraded my Qt and QtCreator installation on Mac (Snow Leopard) just a
>>> couple of days ago. I compiled and installed Qt-4.6 (4.6.1-Stable branch
>>> from the git repository), and then compiled QtCreator 1.3, also the
>>> latest from its corresponding git repo. I had to do this because some
>>> new features introduced in the 4.6 branch that the latest QtCreator uses.
>>> 
>>> I compiled everything in 64 bit passing the -cocoa flag to the configure
>>> script.
>> 
>> there were and are some problems with Cocoa enabled Qt versions, that are 
>> exposed by Qt Creator.
>> Please see http://bugreports.qt.nokia.com/browse/QTCREATORBUG-367
>> Many of these problems were present in the 4.6.0 release of Qt, many have 
>> been fixed in the meantime.
>> 
>>> I had some glitches when compiling Qt, apparently due to some
>>> include path order in the webkit module that conflicted with the mysql
>>> "plugin.h" file. In fact, Thiago Maceiera posted something about mysql
>>> using an include file like "config.h" at
>>> http://bugreports.qt.nokia.com/browse/QTBUG-6351.
>>> 
>>> It looks like Qt would include the mysql file due to some search path
>>> order issue. I went around it after doing some reading by renaming the
>>> "plugin.h" inside the mysql include folder to something else before
>>> continuing the compilation, and then building the mysql plugin by hand
>>> after moving the renamed file back to "plugin.h". After that both Qt and
>>> QtCreator installed just fine.
>>> 
>>> All that I have an idea how it should work appears to continue to work
>>> as usual, except for the mouse clicks inside QtCreator's editor "Select
>>> a symbol" pull down menu: I cannot select anything, as though the editor
>>> remains oblivious to the click. The pull down does display the list of
>>> available functions et al., but I cannot select anything to navigate to
>>> unless I press the arrow keys and then select something by pressing
>>> return. This turns a little bit annoying.
>>> 
>>> Furthermore, if you right-click to display the "Sort alphabetically"
>>> menu you cannot toggle it via a mouse click either. If you right-click
>>> inside the "Sort alphabetically" menu again then another pop up menu
>>> displaying "Sort alphabetically" shows up, which you cannot toggle via
>>> the mouse either.
>>> 
>>> Inside QtDesigner, for instance, a right click brings up a menu, and
>>> after clicking at least once you can select items the usual way, but not
>>> on QtCreator.
>>> 
>>> This appears to indicate some problem with the handling of the mouse
>>> actions.
>>> 
>>> Has this something to do with new features introduced in /Qt or QtCreator?
>>> 
>>> Has anyone seen something like this, or knows a way to fix it, as yet?
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> Victor
>>> <victor_sardina.vcf><ATT00001..txt>
>> 
> 
> <victor_sardina.vcf><ATT00001..txt>

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