Hi Andrew, On 2010-05-12, at 23:41:56 -0400, Andrew A. Gill wrote:
> On Wed, 12 May 2010, Gregory Pittman wrote: > > > On 05/12/2010 01:00 PM, Andrew A. Gill wrote: > >> > >> Will 1.3.3.14 work with Qt4? > >> > > I have no personal experience with Gentoo, but certainly in Fedora, Qt3 can > > coexist with Qt4. Scribus 1.3.3.x is not unique in its need for the older > > Qt. > > Gentoo no longer offers qt3. Have you read http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev-announce/msg_f295c1c2d9d70238d289de3a7ed5bf5c.xml ? Especially the following part: "The deprecated ebuilds for qt:3, and packages using it, will remain available in the community-maintained kde-sunset overlay." There indeed appear to be ebuilds for qt-3.3.8 in kde-sunset. As QT ebuilds are slotted, I don't expect any trouble arising from installing qt-3 in parallel to qt-4 (even with qt3support enabled, as that's just to help developers to move to qt-4 without having to touch all of their code; it's still qt-4, and not something that looks like qt-3 from the outside). >From my past experience with Gentoo, there's little that you can't easily fix on your own with a little research and/or by dropping a slightly tweaked or old ebuild into /usr/local/portage. Or, as mentioned above, by adding an overlay. On 2010-05-12, at 10:20:05 -0400, Andrew A. Gill wrote: > In order to keep using 1.3.3.x on my system, I will have to > compile from scratch a legacy version of Scribus, qt3, libpng, > and a few other packages, and install them alongside the current > versions of those packages, since Gentoo is no longer packaging > them, and the versions of those packages on my system no longer > link. > > I really don't want to do that. You probably don't have to. You can still grab the dead ebuilds for Scribus here http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/app-office/scribus/?hideattic=0 and drop the one you want into /usr/local/portage and add that as your local overlay in /etc/make.conf: PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" You can do the same for other packages if you run into dependency problems. The only trouble you might face is that some old packages stop building with a new toolchain. (But that's probably only to give you an idea of why the Gentoo folks stopped supporting it ;) [*] I really hope you find a solution to your problem. If, as Christoph mentioned, 1.3.7svn is the solution to your problem, even better. :) Cheers, Marcus [*] No, I'm not and have never been actively contributing to the Gentoo core distribution; but it's by far my favourite flavour of Linux, as it sucks so much less than anything else I've tried. I _does_ give me headaches every once in a while, but it's usually stuff that can be fixed. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.scribus.info/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20100513/77e0b95d/attachment.pgp>
