Re: [ANNOUNCE] qgit-2.1 and qgit-1.5.8

[Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>]

On Mon, Dec 31 2007 at 20:07 +0200, "Marco Costalba" <mcostalba@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Dec 31, 2007 6:47 PM, Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Dec 31 2007 at 13:58 +0200, "Marco Costalba" <mcostalba@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Dec 31, 2007 11:59 AM, Filippo Zangheri <filippo.zangheri@yahoo.it> wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I git-cloned qgit-2.1 from your repository, then ran `qmake qgit.pro`, but `make` gave me errors.
>>> Yes, you need qmake of Qt4 not the Qt3 one.
>>>
>> <snip>
>>
>> A Theoretical question.
>> Is it possible to compile Qt4 app all statically linked and run it on a Qt3 based KDE
>> machine. Some thing like the windows installation, where every thing is self-contained?
>>
> 
> It's also very practical...I have _only_ KDE 3 installed, not KDE 4 ;-)
> 
> I have both Qt4 and Qt3 development (shared) libraries installed and
> there is absolutely no compatibility problem, the only thing you have
> to remember is when running
> 
> qmake qgit.pro
> 
> the first time, you need to be sure is the Qt4 qmake, not the Qt3.
> Because I have Qt3 qmake in path, not the Qt4 one, I need to
> explicitly give the whole path the first time I configure the sources,
> something like
> 
> /usr/lib/qt4/bin/qmake qgit.pro
> 
> Then no other settings are needed, when you call make, the Makefiles
> are already built by qmake to search for the correct libraries.
> 
> 
> Hope this helps...
> 
> Marco

Thanks because of your help I was brave enough to install qt4 and compile qgit.
It works.

We use it a lot here. When the guys make a mess, and you need to figure what
happened than qgit is your only friend. I intend to hack some extra stuff that
we need often.

Boaz