Re: Begin phasing out support for Qt 4?

[Mike Miller]

On Tue, Apr 03, 2018 at 08:27:57 -0400, John W. Eaton wrote:
> What about having configure fail by default if an incomplete installation of
> Qt5 is found even if Qt4 might work?  I'm thinking this might avoid some
> confusion.  The error message might say something like
> 
>   ERROR: An incomplete set of Qt5 libraries and tools appears to be
> installed on your system.  You may fix your Qt5 installation or try the
> configure option --with-qt=4 if you would prefer to use Qt4 libraries and
> tools.
> 
> We would only fall back to Qt4 automatically if none of the required Qt5
> libraries and tools are detected.

Yeah, I think that would be better. So if and only if there are no Qt 5
pkg-config files present, then automatically try with Qt 4.

-- 
mike

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