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Re: [trinity-devel] Update - building on Arch with Qt4 present - works fine!

From: Kristopher Gamrat <pikidalto@...>
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2011 13:59:35 -0500
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 12:06 PM, David C. Rankin
<drankinatty@...> wrote:
> On 03/03/2011 10:51 PM, Kristopher Gamrat wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 5:06 PM, David C. Rankin
>> <drankinatty@...> wrote:
>>> Guys,
>>>
>>>  Just a note. After going through nightmares early on with kdelibs and kdebase
>>> pulling in Qt4 files, I have gotten trinity to build fine with Qt4 installed on
>>> arch. I'm not sure what has changed. Whether there were updates to cmake files
>>> that helped or whether it was not having kde4 installed that makes the
>>> difference. However, with Qt4 installed, I can now build trinity without conflicts.
>>
>> I'm leaning toward cmake updates. KDE4 shouldn't interfere with
>> building TDE (other than to take up extra memory when loaded that
>> could be used to speed up building), unless you are trying to install
>> them to the same directories. They are supposed to be able coexist
>> with each other -- just make sure that you are using a different
>> directory to install TDE than is used for KDE4.
>>
>
> I don't know about currently installing kde4 along side trinity (at least on
> Arch) For some reason starting trinity with kde4 present causes all the
> autostart files in /usr/share/autostart to be executed resulting in the kde4
> plasma panel to load on top of the trinity kicker and nepomuk/akonadi, etc. to
> be started.
>
> I know trinity will run along side kde4 because Albert's 3.5.12 build for Arch
> (updated kdemod3) runs fine with kde4 present. We will have to look at how that
> is modified to handle kde4.
>
> Albert, if you know, please chime in :)

If Albert has a patch to fix it, it may be worth submitting to the
bugtracker (see if the bug is filed first, I haven't visited in
awhile).

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Kris
"Piki"
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