On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 03:20:45PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
>
> I have no problem with having methods in the book for both /usr and some
> other location. For me, I will continue to avoid /usr for the extensive
> applications like X11, qt, kde, etc.
Getting back to the original issue, how do you suppose we should deal with
these packages that expect to find X at a specific location (Qt and Python
in this case)? I realized that since both XFree86 and Xorg install the
libXft pkg-config file, we can use that to substitute the users's correct
path. Below has these changes.
The alternative would be to symlink /usr/X11 (or maybe /usr/X11R6) to
$X_PREFIX and call it a day.
What do you think?
--
Dan
BOOK/general/prog/python.xml | 5 +++++
BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml | 4 ++++
BOOK/x/lib/qt.xml | 12 ++++--------
3 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/BOOK/general/prog/python.xml b/BOOK/general/prog/python.xml
index 094ec02..5eb7185 100644
--- a/BOOK/general/prog/python.xml
+++ b/BOOK/general/prog/python.xml
@@ -80,6 +80,11 @@
<sect2 role="installation">
<title>Installation of Python</title>
+ <para>If you would like to build the <xref linkend="tk"/> module, ensure
+ that the X installation is found with the following substitution:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput>sed -i "s@/usr/[EMAIL PROTECTED](pkg-config
--variable=prefix xft)@" setup.py</userinput></screen>
+
<para>Install <application>Python</application> by running the following
commands:</para>
diff --git a/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
b/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
index 57cccc8..64778ed 100644
--- a/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
+++ b/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
@@ -48,6 +48,10 @@
<para>[dnicholson] - Mutt cleanups from Alexander Patrakov and
Ag Hatzim.</para>
</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>[dnicholson] - Ensure that the X11 installation is found
+ when building Qt and Python.</para>
+ </listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>
diff --git a/BOOK/x/lib/qt.xml b/BOOK/x/lib/qt.xml
index 5be137c..5167037 100644
--- a/BOOK/x/lib/qt.xml
+++ b/BOOK/x/lib/qt.xml
@@ -105,14 +105,10 @@
the <application>X Window System</application> in any prefix other than
<filename class="directory">/usr/X11R6</filename>, then you should correct
the <application>qmake</application> configuration files with the following
- commands, replacing <replaceable><PREFIX></replaceable> with the
- installation prefix of the
- <application>X Window System</application>:</para>
-
-<screen><userinput>for file in $(grep -lr "X11R6" *)
-do
- sed -i "s@/usr/X11R6@<replaceable><PREFIX></replaceable>@g" $file
-done</userinput></screen>
+ commands:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput>sed -i "s@/usr/[EMAIL PROTECTED](pkg-config
--variable=prefix xft)@" \
+ mkspecs/linux*/qmake.conf</userinput></screen>
<para>There are several ways to install a complicated package such as
<application>Qt</application>. The files are not completely position
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