> From: D. Michael McIntyre <michael.mcintyre@ro...> - 2011-09-10 01:24 > >> On Friday, September 09, 2011, Christian Eitner wrote: >> >> The wiki page states that Qt 4.4.3 is needed (version 4.5 is suggested). >> >> Is that no longer true? > > I'm afraid not. I've been using Ubuntu 10.04 LTS as a benchmark for ensuring > that Rosegarden doesn't require anything too new or bleeding edge. I actually > have to keep a separate copy of Qt 4.7 around to manage our translations, due > to bugs in Qt. As such, I'm pretty much satisfied if Rosegarden builds > against Qt 4.6, and I'm not at all interested in supporting anything older > than that at this point.
Ok, perhaps the wiki page could be updated in that respect. > The good news is that while it's mildly inconvenient, you should be able to do > the same thing I do to get a copy of Qt 4.7 up and going. Unless things have > changed since the last time I set this up, you can download a pre-compiled > binary version of Qt from Nokia, drop it in userland, and compile Rosegarden > against that. That saves hours and hours of compiling Qt from source, and > keeps the newer version separate from the rest of the stuff installed on your > system. It's a bit of a pain, but it's less painful than the alternatives. I will try that. > I had this working perfectly there for awhile, but at some point I screwed > something up, and now Rosegarden will compile against 4.7, but fails to link. > I never did sort that out, I'm afraid to say. Still, I had it all working > once, and I'm sure the problem can be solved for less effort than upgrading > your entire system. > > Or you could just upgrade. Karmic is obsolete, and no longer supported by > Ubuntu. You could probably upgrade it to LTS relatively easily, being the > next step in line, and then you could build Rosegarden from there without any > further ado. I surely won't upgrade my perfectly running system :-) I have been bitten by that too often, and will rather migrate to a newly installed newer version in time. Cheers, Christian ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Malware Security Report: Protecting Your Business, Customers, and the Bottom Line. Protect your business and customers by understanding the threat from malware and how it can impact your online business. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51427462/ _______________________________________________ Rosegarden-user mailing list Rosegarden-user@lists.sourceforge.net - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-user
