[Interest] Installing Qt SDK Problem Summary

Szalata, Zenon M. zms at slac.stanford.edu
Fri Feb 24 17:30:57 CET 2012


Thank you all for helping,
I have settled on building Qt 4.8 and creator 2.4.1 from sources.  The process is more tedious but the results are more gratifying.
Zen

> -----Original Message-----
> From: eike.ziller at nokia.com [mailto:eike.ziller at nokia.com]
> Sent: Friday, February 24, 2012 12:37 AM
> To: Szalata, Zenon M.
> Cc: thiago at kde.org; interest at qt-project.org
> Subject: Re: [Interest] Installing Qt SDK Problem Summary
> 
> 
> On 23 Feb 2012, at 19:13, ext Szalata, Zenon M. wrote:
> 
> > Thank you Thiago,
> > If the "Pixmap is not an X11 ..." bug has been fixed, why then, the creator
> installed with the SDK installer prints these messages?  Is there a patch that
> could be installed?
> 
> The Qt Creator version in the SDK is still built with Qt 4.7.4, Qt 4.8 was not
> released yet (at least not when the Qt Creator 2.4.0 came out).
> 
> Br, Eike
> 
> > Zen
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: interest-bounces+zms=slac.stanford.edu at qt-project.org
> >> [mailto:interest-bounces+zms=slac.stanford.edu at qt-project.org] On Behalf
> Of
> >> Thiago Macieira
> >> Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2012 12:27 AM
> >> To: interest at qt-project.org
> >> Subject: Re: [Interest] Installing Qt SDK Problem Summary
> >>
> >> On quarta-feira, 22 de fevereiro de 2012 21.11.34, Szalata, Zenon M.
> wrote:
> >>> I suppose if I deleted ~/.config/Nokia from my home directory, then
> >>> the installation would succeed.  However, it is very likely that the
> >>> installation would break next time RedHat upgraded some component in
> >>> its qt installation.
> >>
> >> ~/.config/Nokia isn't used by Qt itself, only by Qt Creator. Qt itself uses an
> older
> >> naming: ~/.config/Trolltech.conf.
> >>
> >> ~/.config/Nokia is so far used by a single application and there's not much
> need
> >> to have two versions of Creator in your system. If you can delete the older
> >> version of the application, removing the settings is ok too. I recommend you
> >> stick to the latest version of Creator that you can find or build.
> >>
> >>> I suppose, one way that I can deal with this is to uninstall both
> >>> RedHat qt installations.  I am reluctant to do this because I am not
> >>> sure why they are there in the first place.  Does KDE need these?
> >>
> >> Yes. KDE 3 requires Qt 3 and KDE 4 requires Qt 4.
> >>
> >>> Another observation.  The qt creator from the SDK installation prints
> >>> QPixmap::handle(): Pixmap is not an X11 class pixmap messages, while
> >>> qt creator build from sources does not.
> >>
> >> Sounds like a bug that has been fixed :-)
> >>
> >> --
> >> Thiago Macieira - thiago (AT) macieira.info - thiago (AT) kde.org
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