Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kde (171 mails)

[Daniel Eckl <daniel.eckl@xxxxxx>]

Hi Matt!

Am Samstag, 3. Mai 2003 16:38 schrieb Matt Gibson:
> Does anyone know why the QT3 rpm for SuSE 7.2 (in supplementary/updates/...
> on the ftp servers) doesn't have xft configured?  That is, it doesn't seem
> to have support for antialiased fonts.  It took me ages to track down where
> my nice smooth KDE fonts had gone; eventually I just compiled QT from
> source...

The reason is, that Xft requires XFree 4.2.0, which is an optional, 
unsupported update for SuSE 7.2 and 7.3.

At the beginning, the QT packages for KDE were built with Xft support. But 
many people complained about the errors with Xfree < 4.2. And they didn't 
accept the prerequisite of updating XFree first. So the supporting expense on 
this list was too high for Adrian from SuSE, so he decided to provide Xft 
Support not below SuSE 8.0.

> As a side-issue, if I've done something like this, i.e. rebuilt QT but am
> still using the KDE RPMs, does anyone know if there's a way of fudging the
> RPM database so that it doesn't moan about QT being missing?  You know,
> something that'll tell rpm,"look, it's all right, I've built something
> that's exactly compatible with this missing RPM, so please stop whining..."

You can rebuild the qt RPM package, so RPM will know that you have all you 
need.

My suggestion is to fetch the QT src.rpm from kde.org:
ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/3.1.1a/SuSE/src/qt3-3.1.2-0.src.rpm

Make "rpm -ivh qt3-3.1.2-0.src.rpm". Now you have all the files in 
/usr/src/packages".

Now you can edit the files /usr/src/packages/SPECS/qt.spec and 
/usr/src/packages/SOURCES/build.sh" so that they build with Xft and render 
support.

After that do a "rpm -bb /usr/src/packages/SPECS/qt.spec" and after some time 
(long time, maybe) you'll have a wonderful SuSE qt rpm package you can 
install into your system.

Greets,
Daniel