[Qt-interest] Qt 4.6 fails to be build from source

[David Ching]

"Malyushytsky, Alex" <alex at wai.com> wrote in message 
news:hihicq$d97$1 at eple.troll.no...
> I decided to provide solution for people who might experience similar 
> problem.
>
> It looks like problems are caused by the temporary files (*.tmp) left in 
> src folders in qt-sdk-win-opensource-2009.05.exe.
> These files are not deleted by any option available  ( confclean / clean) 
> are probably left there by mingw.
>
> Instead of removing these files manually and waste another few hours to 
> test if it builds now I downloaded only source, build Qt from the scratch 
> and was able to build it without errors.
> I can't claim  that removing all the temporaries would fix the problem, 
> but building from source at 
> http://get.qt.nokia.com/qt/source/qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.6.0.zip 
> does not show any.
>

Glad you got it to work!  After building the source, I make a habit of doing 
the equivalent of rm -rf *.tmp which significantly reclaims a lot of disk 
space if nothing else.  Don't know if that helps, but after doing this and 
then doing the distclean/confclean or whatever it is (why are there two 
directives and not just one?) then I have no problems rebuilding Qt.


> Need to mention I am surprised I could not find source only download in 
> the list at
> http://qt.nokia.com/downloads after  I specified LGPL.
> Require people to chose one of the binaries they don't need before 
> providing a link to the source code is confusing.
>

After clicking the link to download the binaries, you are taken to a page 
that has in it:

    Source code available on this link:  <link>

Cancel the Save As dialog in your browser to cancel the binaries download 
you had clicked on, then click on the above link.

-- David