Don't install non-Qt libraries to $QT4DIR (hold)

[Armin K]

While building new KDE desktop, I've stumbled upon something. Several libraries which require Qt4 are being installed into $QT4DIR. This is wrong.

If Qt4 gets upgraded, and new directory takes place as QT4DIR (via symlink as suggested in the book), other libraries installed in the old prefix will become unavailable.

[bdubbs@…]

In the KDE section I found automoc4 and phonon which really should go in KDE_PREFIX.

In chapter 9, General Libraries, I found libdbusmenuqt, grantlee, qca, and qjson.

Tlibdbusmenuqt is only used is kdelibs.
grantlee is only used in kdelibs and kdepim.
qca is only used in kdelibs, although I've seen it outside of KDE (and BLFS).
qjson is used in libdbusmenuqt, kdepimlibs, kde-workspace, kdeplasma-addons, kate, ark, and amarok.

amarok requires kdelibs.

I suppose all those should also go in the KDE_PREFIX directory.

There is no "QT4PREFIX" that I could find. The var is &qt4-dir; which is defined as "$QT4DIR" which is, in turn, /usr or /opt/qt4.

To check the changes, all of Qt and KDE probably need to be rebuilt with the new prefix. I suggest waiting until the next KDE or Qt4 release.

[Armin K]

Yeah, but mentioned packages are not in KDE section and KDE_PREFIX and co might not be configured when building non-KDE dependant libraries. I agree about Amarok, Phonon and Automoc, but not about others. Unless you want to link the kde configuration page on each of them, I suggest simply installing them in /usr.

[bdubbs@…]

At one time we had grantlee in the KDE additional programs section. I don't recall why we moved it. Perhaps it was used by a non-KDE package we removed.

Another option is to move libdbusmenuqt and qjson to the KDE section.

I can live with qca being in /usr.

[Armin K]

Grantlee was moved because it doesn't belong in KDE Section. Much like many packages used by GNOME but not being in GNOME chapter.

[bdubbs@…]

Holding until next qt or kde release.