Re: Patching QT...

John Davidorff Pell wrote:

> what exactly does the patch to QT do? why do we need to patch it? Is it 
> to make things simpler, or do we *have* to? What would the effects be if 
> I did not patch QT?
> 
> How much of it is required? Last time I checked, it was only
> +QMAKE_ETENSION_PLUGIN    = so
> and
> -    -DQT_NO_COMPRESS -I@QMAKESPEC@ -DHAVE_QCONFIG_CPP
> -LFLAGS=@QMAKE_LFLAGS@
> +    -DQT_NO_COMPRESS -I@QMAKESPEC@ -DHAVE_QCONFIG_CPP -mdynamic-no-pic
> +LFLAGS=@QMAKE_LFLAGS@ -mdynamic-no-pic
> 
> It seems *much* bigger now. and the disclaimer at the top looks 
> interesting...

It won't kill you to not use it, the -mdynamic-no-pic makes the 
command-line tools slightly faster; most of the other changes are fixes 
from KDE's "qt-copy", which contains patches to be sent back upstream to 
trolltech that fix various problems.

If you don't use the patch, everything should still be ok (as of qt 
3.3.0 final, the beta wouldn't work exactly right).