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Re: [trinity-devel] Trinity on Arch - Intel Atom (new thread)

From: calvin morrison <mutantturkey@...>
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 20:02:01 -0500
On 22/02/2011, David C. Rankin <drankinatty@...> wrote:
> On 02/22/2011 05:49 PM, calvin morrison wrote:
>> I do have qt4 installed (hmm you seem to have mentioned that before)
>> BUT that shouldn't interfere with it afaik.
>>
>
> Oh yes it will :(
>
>   There are several problems, see thread:
>
> [trinity-users] kdebase make failure if Qt4 installed, QtCore/qfile.h
> QT_BEGIN_HEADER doesn't name type
>
> There are 2 big ones, cmake will not ignore Qt4 uic and end up trying to use
> it
> instead of uic from trinity. (you can try and trick it by putting
> /opt/qt/bin:/opt/trinity/bin/ before /usr in your path, but that is a risky
> hack.
>
> Then there is:
>
> <quote>
> If kde4/Qt4 is installed, cmake fails when it uses
> /usr/include/QtCore/qfile.h instead of /opt/qt/include/qfile.h.
>
> I cannot figure out how to tell cmake to ignore the /usr/include. I have
> tried
> the cmake arguments:
>
>   cmake ../ \
>     -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=${trinity_prefix} \
>     -DWITH_QT3=ON \
>     -DQTDIR=/opt/qt \
>     -DBUILD_ALL=ON
> </quote>
>
> <reply>
> They are right, some KDE3 applications where no amount of
> configuration helps only build properly in a clean chroot, without the
> KDE4 stuff around.
>
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:Building_in_a_Clean_Chroot
>
> </reply>
>
> So even though you can *INSTALL* Trinity next to kde4, that doesn't mean you
> can
> *BUILD* Trinity next to kde4 :) Same goes for Qt4. If you are building
> trinity
> based on Qt3, just because you can *INSTALL* a Qt3 based Trinity on a system
> with Qt4 present, it doesn't mean you can *BUILD* a Qt3 based Trinity with
> Qt4
> present :)
>
> The PKGBUILD files are correct, but they don't work magic :p
>
> Set up a clean build environment in VirtualBox. Alocate  ~15G to the
> install,
> (you could probably get away with 8G total). For a 15G VM allocate 5G '/',
> 120M
> '/boot', the rest '/home'. The basic Arch install takes ~ 10 minutes to
> install
> base and base-devel packages and all you have to do is hit 'return' and the
> Arch
> defaults for partitioning, etc. are fine.
>
> Then what I did was just to setup my existing /home/david dir as a shared
> folder
> in VirtualBox to provide access to all my files and provide a place to save
> finished packages so they exist outside the VM. Then in the VirtualBox guest
> install of Arch, just create your /home/calvin/builds, set the paths for the
> bldtrinsvn-all.sh to use that as your builds dir and point the srcdir and
> pkgdir
> path to the shared folder on your original /home/calvin that you shared with
> your guest as something like 'hhome' (short for host home) and start
> building.
>
> No whacky kde4/kde3 lib conflicts and no Qt4/Qt3 header file conflicts.
>
> Some software just needs a clean build environment to build properly. It has
> nothing to do with running it, it just has to build without the presents of
> conflicting files.
>
> --
> David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
>
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It seems this is a case where we would need a make-conflict. but that
doesn't exist in PKGBUILDs arrays. Fogobogo suggest that we add it to
our make depends and require that (qt < 4).

Can we resolve this issue another way?
Calvin