[Development] Qt 5 and old versions of XCB

[Pier Luigi]

2012/3/17 Bradley Smith <bsmith at baysmith.com>:
>
>> The workaround for systems that don't meet the minimum requirements is to
>> upgrade. Running brand, new and bleeding edge Qt 5 on an old system is not
>> a
>> target for us. Simply upgrade -- at the very least the requirements.
>
> Is it possible to upgrade just XCB? Upgrading the OS from OpenSUSE 11.1 is
> not an option since this is a production environment used on very many
> systems. I'm not familiar with how tightly integraded X11 and XCB are and am
> unsure if there will be incompatibilities to upgrading pieces.

I usually build and install Qt5 along with Wayland, Mesa and CMake
2.8.7 (with automoc) on /opt/qt5 and I would recommend you to do the
same for XCB.

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