2015-01-18 4:46 GMT+04:00 Kevin Kofler <kevin.kof...@chello.at>: > Konstantin Ritt wrote: > > As a developer, I would rarely use the only Qt version provided by the > > distro. In fact, I currently have 8 different Qt-5 builds (partially > > because of some projects are sticking to some particular Qt-5 > > version/configuration/etc.) > > In practice, using the latest works in >99% of the cases, due to upstream's > backwards compatibility guarantees. > > I develop everything against the system Qt (which is regularly updated in > Fedora), and in those cases where I need to check that it works with some > older Qt too, I simply build it in a CentOS chroot with the "mock" tool > (either by just packaging it as an RPM and throwing that to mock (one-line > invocation), or by scripting a manual build in mock). >
This clearly shows our use cases are quite different. > Having just a "qmake-qt5" solution doesn't fit my purposes; adding some > > freaky suffixes is not an option either. > > But surely setting PATH to /opt/yourqt/bin:$PATH would work for you? What's > the point of qtchooser? > I prefer setting QT_SELECT to "someproject" and then simply `qmake && make` over manipulating the PATH and/or obtaining the suffix needed to run qmake. At very least, why should I remember which project has been built with this or that Qt version/configuration? > > As for Qt-4 and the qmake name clash, I *never* had a problem with > > building against a wrong Qt version, simply because I have a separate > > configuration for my Qt-4 builds. > > I have all of qt3-devel, qt-devel (Qt 4) and qt5-qtbase-devel installed on > my system, and they just work, thanks to suffixed binaries. So I don't need > a "separate configuration". (What would that even be? Different user > account? Different chroot? Different VM? None of those are needed here.) > Different configuration. i.e. qt4.5, qt4.7, qt4.7-mingw. Regards, Konstantin
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