Bug 137658

Summary:	which qt VTK should really use?
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Daniel Tourde - Caelae.se <daniel.tourde>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Markus Dittrich (RETIRED) <markusle>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal	CC:	sci
Priority:	High
Version:	2005.1
Hardware:	AMD64
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	137661

Description Daniel Tourde - Caelae.se 2006-06-22 14:42:33 UTC

Hello,

I have qt3 and qt4 on my AMD64 box. When I build vtk-5.0.0 with the qt3 and qt4 flags on, I notice during the cmake procedure that qt-4 will be used and apparently not qt-3. Is it supposed to be like this?

emerge -pv vtk

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild  N    ] sci-libs/vtk-5.0.0  +doc -examples +java -mpi -patented +python +qt3 +qt4 +tcltk -threads 0 kB

Comment 1 Markus Dittrich (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-06-22 18:30:17 UTC

Hi Daniel,

Yes, in case both qt3 and qt4 are selected the ebuild will default to
qt4. In order to make this more apparent I have just added a brief
warning to the ebuild that points this out to the user. The reasoning
behind having a qt3 and qt4 use flag in the first place was to allow the 
user to select either qt4 or qt3 support rather than just defaulting to 
one of them or selecting the more recent one by default. That's at least
what I personally prefer.

I hope that answers your question (please comment/re-open if not) and 
I'll close this issue as invalid.

Thanks,
Markus