[QScintilla] RFE: Parallel qt4/qt5 installs (patch)

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Wed Feb 11 14:53:12 GMT 2015


Rex Dieter wrote:

> I've attached a patch very similar to how other libraries support
> parallel-
> installability betweeen qt4 and qt5 (and newer) versions.  In short, it
> adds a -qt5 postfix to conflicting pieces (the base shared library name,
> namely). This breaks ABI obviously (unavoidable), but API interfaces are
> unaffected.
> 
> I've tested that this allows me to build/run both eric6 (python3/qt5
> based) and eric4 (python2/qt4 based) at the same time.

FYI, I'm including this patch:

http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/qscintilla.git/tree/QScintilla-gpl-2.8.4-qt5.patch

in fedora packaging, and seems to work for building/running both older and 
newer versions of eric.

-- Rex




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