Re: [cp-patches] QT4 configury bits for OS-X

[Andreas Tobler]

Hi Mark,

Mark Wielaard wrote:

> > I tested this patch on ppclinux, sparc solaris10 and ppc-darwin8.2 with 
> > positive and negative configs. I hope I catched all.
> >
> > Comments welcome.
> >
> > 2005-09-27  Andreas Tobler  <address@hidden>
> >
> >         * configure.ac: Add Qt4 configury bits for OS-X.
>
>
> Looks fine to me. Although it seems this is for all Darwin systems, not
> just OS-X. It also still works for me. So please check it in.

Well, thanks. I committed already without a change.

This patch is exclusively for Mac OS-X, not darwin. OS-X has darwin as 
core OS, but all the Apple like GUI's, look and feel come from OS-X. 
They are not included in a raw darwin installation (opendarwin.org)

Trolltech offers two packages which can be used on mac, one for mac 
which is meant for OS-X and which uses the core graphics etc. 
frameworks. The other one is for X11, the same as most (if not all) of 
the Unix/Linux users use. This, as the name already says, uses the X11 
server. The former uses the OS-X native WindowManager/Xserver if we can 
tell them so.

The qt4 config bits handle first the X11 variant and look for pkg-config 
stuff, if we sit on a raw darwin install with X11, the qt4 libs should 
be found this way. (Not tested, but I highly expect behaving so, 
although, we can update later if necessary)

In the second step we handle now configs where the pkg-config mechanism 
is missing. Here, OS-X makes the first entry.

I hope I could give some insights why we have to distinguish between 
darwin and OS-X.

Thanks again,

Regards,
Andreas