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Re: [trinity-devel] Success! tqtinterface builds Fine on Arch from git

From: Darrell Anderson <humanreadable@...>
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 14:28:49 -0800 (PST)
> TQt3 allows the TDE developers to use Qt4 libraries within
> TDE
> applications, e.g. Webkit.  Qt3 does not allow this due
> to C++ namespace
> conflicts (technically it is a problem with both the
> compiler and linker
> caused by two different definitions of common classes such
> as QObject, but
> the previous description gets the point across in a succinct
> manner).
> 
> I strongly recommend using tqt3 if posssible, but am keeping
> qt3 compatibility via tqtinterface for everything except the
> language bindings
> modules (tdebindings, python-tqt, etc.).
> 
> Does this help?

Clear as mud. :)

You wrote "...am keeping qt3 compatibility via tqtinterface..." When building with TQt3, do we still have to build tqtinterface too? Or is tqtinterface required only when building with Qt3? I could discover the answer the hard way next time I build....

Darrell