Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2974 mails)

[Derek Fountain <derekfountain@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > You don't have to remove anything. I build with the --prefix set to
> > /opt/kde2-HEAD which isolates the whole code, then set QTDIR and
> > KDEDIR to point to the correct places. It works like clockwork.
> 
> Right here was where I had problems.   Qith QTDIR set to qt-1.x I couldn't
> compile qt-2.x.  It died saying it couldn't find qt.  With KDEDIR set to
> KDE2 the KDE packages barfed a lung.  I didn't want to be using or firing
> a script to switch them back and forth all the time.  That's why I stripped
> KDE and Qt-1.x

Well, OK! If your boat's floating that's cool!

If you switch KDEDIR or QTDIR in a shell, the whole system won't go down
- the change to the envvar is only visible to that shell and whatever
you run from it (like a compiler). So I guess you must have changed them
at some earlier point to upset the whole system. I have "kde", "kde2"
and "kde2-HEAD" scripts which run from kdm to start whichever
environment I choose from the login dialog. Each sets up the correct
envvars, and the 3 environments work quite happily together.

That said, I haven't booted anything other than kde2-HEAD for weeks now.