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Re: [trinity-devel] poppler-qt3 NEED HELP - Anybody got it building with current poppler-qt & gcc 4.6?

From: "David C. Rankin" <drankinatty@...>
Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 07:34:30 -0500
On 05/09/2011 07:32 PM, Calvin Morrison wrote:
>> That's where I am right now. I wanted to try the -DWITH_PDF=ON to see what
>> additional functionality that provided. I don't know for sure, but I think
>> it might be used for pdf thumbnailing or other ancillary pdf processing
>> functions. The current kpdf works great with kdegraphics built without
>> -DWITH_PDF=ON, so I'm not driving myself crazy over it (I've already done
>> that long ago :)
>>
>> However - what sucks is I'm the poppler-qt3 maintainer for AUR, but I'm NOT
>> the AUR maintainer of Qt3 - issues.....
>>
>
> Here we go.
>
> 1) yes it is the thumbnailing plugin that it is used for, nothing
> else, unfortunately if you disable it, you loose all of your
> kfile-plugins.
>
> 2) make your own package, like trinity-qt3 ( i think i own that one,
> but you can have it) that way you can muck around with it, and give it
> what we need.
>

I should have time to try the rebuild with Baho's patch and then see if 
kdegraphics will build with -DWITH_PDF=ON. If so, we are in good shape.

Once we get a consistent set of patches for Qt3 to work with gcc 4.6, things 
should be stable for a while.

-- 
David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.