[Qt-jambi-interest] qt-jambi rpm

[Markus Walser]

Thank you for all your answers. If this is really just a java-1.5 issue, a
simple
dependency to java-1.6 could be added. Even though it wouldn't solve all
problems.

@alexander:
Could you please send me your spec file as starting point?

Regards, Markus


2008/7/15 Alexander Egger <alexander.egger at gmail.com>:

> I started creating a RPM at opensuse build service. But was not able
> to get it working by now.
>
> On thing I found out is, that you should not try to reuse the existing
> QT installation of the distribution to compile against.
>
> The main reason for this is that the QT for qtjambi has to be compiled
> using --no-mmx etc (see documentation of qtjambi).
>
> So to build the rpm you have to first build qt and then to build qtjambi.
>
> If you are interested in the spec file I created (although its not
> ready now) I will send it to you.
>
> Alexander
>
> On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 8:37 AM, Eskil Abrahamsen Blomfeldt
> <eblomfel at trolltech.com> wrote:
> > Markus Walser wrote:
> >> Since currently no distribution is delivering qtjambi-4.4 and I
> >> couldn't find an rpm, II was thinking a bit how to
> >> organize such a rpm structure. One basic question that raised: Would
> >> it be possible to use the normal qt
> >> libraries form "/usr/lib " instead of putting a copy of the nativ
> >> libraries to ".../jvm/java/jre/lib/..." ? Or may I run
> >> then into a java VM boundry problem?
> >
> >
> > Hi, Markus.
> >
> > You should be able to run Qt Jambi against any Qt distribution as long
> > as the versions match and Qt Jambi is built from source against the
> > actual configuration of Qt against which you are running it.
> >
> > However, one problem I do foresee, is that there is a bug in the JVM
> > causing it to crash at random when running with code that uses SSE or
> > MMX instructions. Therefore, to protect yourself against these crashes,
> > the Qt version against which you run Qt Jambi should be configured with
> > the options:
> >
> >    -no-mmx -no-sse -no-sse2 -no-3dnow
> >
> > As far as we know, this is a problem exclusive to Sun's Virtual Machine
> > version 1.5, so hopefully it should not occur if you use any other
> > implementation.
> >
> > -- Eskil
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>
>
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