From kde-devel  Sun Dec 29 18:29:50 2002
From: Vadim Plessky <lucy-ples () mtu-net ! ru>
Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2002 18:29:50 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: Qt-3.1.1 under RedHat 8.0
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On Sunday 29 December 2002 03:50, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
|  Troels Tolstrup wrote:
[...]
|  >>As I said somewhere else: are you certain as to which: "Xft.h" was
|  >>used to build Qt?
|  >
|  > As stated above, i only have one Xft.h on the entire system
|  >
|  > Unlike you, i managed to compile qt3 without changing anything on my
|  > system,
|
|  I don't know if I consider installing FCPackage from source on RedHat 7.3
| "changing" the system. It was just an installation -- a very messy and
| complicated one, but just an install.

I am curious (at this point) *why* someone wants to use RedHat 7.3 when RedHat 
8.0 is out?
If you want KDE 3.1 - you would better install Mandrake 9.0 or SuSE, IMHO.
If you want *real RedHat system* - why not install RH8 or RawHide?..

|
|   > but just by adding a -I option to configure and fixing the
|  >
|  > makefiles. You even caused trobles for yourself by installing FCPackage
|  > from source and hence have multiple Xft.h files, which i don't. Sure
|  > your way works too, but it is not as clean, and not as easy IMO.
|
|  I think that most users will find it much simpler to make links than to
| edit the make files.

Com'on, most users would prefer to install packages in RPM format, preferably 
via KPackage manager or urpmi (on Mandrake).

|
|  --
|  JRT

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