Compiling 2.3.2 into RH 8.0

[Dukiena]

(thanks to Flipper for his eduaction on most of the following)
The command will look something like:

go to your terminal
cd /
cd usr/local
wget ftp://ftp.trolltech.com/qt/source/qt-x11-2.3.2.tar.gz
tar zxvf qt-x11-2.3.2.tar.gz
mv qt-2.3.2 qt # renames folder to qt
cd qt
export QTDIR=$(pwd)
./configure -thread
make (this will take 2 hours on a p450 with 512 memory)

(at thing point i decided just to update my cvs's and recompile showeq, you should now see when it gets to the ./configure it will recognize the 2.3.2 and it will say workable YES!!! in yellow)

cd /
mkdir seq
cd seq
export CVSROOT=:pserver:[email protected] :/cvsroot/seq
cvs login
cvs checkout showeq
cd showeq
make -f Makefile.dist
QTDIR=/usr/local/qt ./configure
make
make install

This worked good for me. does anyone have any other suggestions.

[fryfrog]

instead of using gunzip and tar, you can just do "tar zxvf filename.tar.gz" which will result in the same thing with less commands.

also, instead of "export QTDIR=/usr/lib/qt" you can just include it on your ./configure line of showeq like so...



QTDIR=/usr/lib/qt ./configure


this has two main benefits that i know of, 1.) it doesn't reset your global QTDIR variable (just in case you use other QT or something) and 2.) its shorter to type :)

[Dukiena]

Thanks I have edited your suggestion

[NHRAfan]

nm. I am a noob. This works fine when you type it in right.