[LAU] [ANN] Qtractor 0.6.6 - The Lazy Tachyon is out!

[Will Godfrey]

On Mon, 30 Mar 2015 16:27:16 +0100
Rui Nuno Capela <rui.capela at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 03/30/2015 04:10 PM, Dale Kazakore Powell wrote:
> > On 30/03/15 21:49, Rui Nuno Capela wrote:
> >> On 03/30/2015 03:44 PM, Rui Nuno Capela wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> OK. One must set (export) a QT_SELECT=4 or such before running
> >>>> ./configure.
> >>>> Since qmake never needed such an environment variable or argument
> >>>> before, I do
> >>>> consider this a bug. An example is that the ./configure here did not
> >>>> set that
> >>>> variable or supply an argument based on choices made by its qt choice
> >>>> argment.
> >>>> No one knew one needed it and the ./configure --help said that qt4 was
> >>>> default.
> >>>>
> >>>> So Rui, please implement (and the default qt4) in the configure.
> >>>
> >>> excuse me :)
> >>>
> >>> qtchooser, and thus the QT_SELECT switch, is probably a debian exclusive
> >>> thing, meaning that it's specific to some debian packaging policy,
> >>> organization and whatever--it is NOT a Qt thing and might not apply to
> >>> other distros or environments so easily, mainly because there's no
> >>> qtchooser package installed nor even available.
> >>
> >> might be mistaken however ;)
> >>
> >> byee
> >
> > Definitely seems to be part of Qt.
> >
> > https://qt.gitorious.org/qt/qtchooser/source/ae5eeef85c9a818bfa6a3e03511e3935e9abe01f:
> >
> > http://qt-project.org/search?search=qtchooser
> >
> 
> so i was mistaken when sadd qtchooser is not a qt thing. my bad ;)
> 
> but the rest of the excuse still applies:
> 
> the onus of the desired/current QT_SELECT setting should be left to the 
> user and not hard-coded on a configure script, at least for the time being.
> 
> byee


OK, this now works for me.

Although I can see your argument, it's not much help when the user is quite
unaware of what the issue is. Before compiling unknown software I *always*
checkout the README file (if it exists), and there is no mention there of
possible contention between qt 4 & 5.

Why not simply add something like this at the top:

WARNING

Qtractor is intended to be compiled with qt version 4
Before running config you may need to enter:
export QT_SELECT=4


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