[gentoo-dev] Supporting both Qt4 and Qt5 builds
Hi, I'm thinking of converting a few ebuilds (x11-libs/qwt, dev-libs/kqoauth, net-libs/qxmpp among them) to support building with both Qt4 and Qt5. Should this better be done by adding the corresponding useflags (qt4 and qt5 respectively) or by slotting? The pros and cons for each, off the top of my head: slotting: + Allows having different use flags for qt4 and qt5 builds (can't think why that would be needed in the above examples though). - Possibility of exponential growth of the number of slots in case slotting would be required according to some other criteria (again, can't think why that would be needed in the above examples). - Requires keeping two different copies of the same ebuild with basically the same build rules, with all the consequences. useflags: + Seems to be easier and doing the required trick. + app-text/poppler already does this. - Enabling support for previously disabled Qt version requires rebuilding the whole library twice. What's your opinion on this? I've attached the useflag-based variant as a draft. -- Georg Rudoy kqoauth-0.98-r2.ebuild Description: Binary data
Re: [gentoo-dev] Supporting both Qt4 and Qt5 builds
Am Sonntag, 10. August 2014, 14:51:45 schrieb Georg Rudoy: Hi, I'm thinking of converting a few ebuilds (x11-libs/qwt, dev-libs/kqoauth, net-libs/qxmpp among them) to support building with both Qt4 and Qt5. Should this better be done by adding the corresponding useflags (qt4 and qt5 respectively) or by slotting? The pros and cons for each, off the top of my head: slotting: + Allows having different use flags for qt4 and qt5 builds (can't think why that would be needed in the above examples though). - Possibility of exponential growth of the number of slots in case slotting would be required according to some other criteria (again, can't think why that would be needed in the above examples). - Requires keeping two different copies of the same ebuild with basically the same build rules, with all the consequences. useflags: + Seems to be easier and doing the required trick. + app-text/poppler already does this. - Enabling support for previously disabled Qt version requires rebuilding the whole library twice. What's your opinion on this? I've attached the useflag-based variant as a draft. Multibuild is prefered. -- Johannes Huber (johu) Gentoo Linux Developer / KDE Team GPG Key ID F3CFD2BD
Re: [gentoo-dev] Supporting both Qt4 and Qt5 builds
On 10 August 2014 18:51, Georg Rudoy 0xd34df...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm thinking of converting a few ebuilds (x11-libs/qwt, dev-libs/kqoauth, net-libs/qxmpp among them) to support building with both Qt4 and Qt5. Should this better be done by adding the corresponding useflags (qt4 and qt5 respectively) or by slotting? What's your opinion on this? The Qt team has always recommended the useflag method for packages that support more than one major version of Qt. This is also what we implement ourselves. So for consistency's sake, please stick with the useflags. -- Cheers, Ben | yngwin Gentoo developer
