On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 04:39:20PM -0500, Steve Litt wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Well, after 2 hours I got libqt4-devel loaded, and a 30 minute make ended 
> like 
> this:
> 
> make  all-recursive
> make[6]: Entering directory `/home/slitt/junk/lyx-1.5.3/src/frontends/qt4'
> Making all in ui
> make[7]: Entering directory `/home/slitt/junk/lyx-1.5.3/src/frontends/qt4/ui'
> /usr/lib/qt3//bin/uic -tr lyx::qt_ AboutUi.ui -o AboutUi.h

This is uic from Qt 3.

Do not use it to work with Qt 4.

> uic: File generated with too recent version of Qt Designer (4.0 vs. 3.3.6)
> make[7]: *** [AboutUi.h] Error 1
> make[7]: Leaving directory `/home/slitt/junk/lyx-1.5.3/src/frontends/qt4/ui'
> make[6]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[6]: Leaving directory `/home/slitt/junk/lyx-1.5.3/src/frontends/qt4'
> make[5]: *** [all] Error 2
> make[5]: Leaving directory `/home/slitt/junk/lyx-1.5.3/src/frontends/qt4'
> make[4]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/slitt/junk/lyx-1.5.3/src/frontends'
> make[3]: *** [all] Error 2
> make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/slitt/junk/lyx-1.5.3/src/frontends'
> make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/slitt/junk/lyx-1.5.3/src'
> make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/slitt/junk/lyx-1.5.3/src'
> make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] lyx-1.5.3]$
> 
> Back when we had xforms as an option, I could easily compile LyX. OK yeah it 
> wasn't as pretty as QT, but it worked and got the job done, and at least I 
> could use a LyX newer and more featureful than my Linux distro.

And it was a pain in the ass to maintain this 'GUI independence'. We had
about as much glue code than in the frontend itself.

Andre'

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