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Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2002 15:13:50 +0200
To: Rob Lahaye <lahaye@snu.ac.kr>, kde@FreeBSD.org
From: "Erik H. Bakke" <ebakke@trolltech.com>
Subject: Re: [kde-freebsd] FreeBSD Port: qt-3.0.3_5
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At 22:00 09.08.2002 +0900, Rob Lahaye wrote:

>Hi,
>
>For what reason are the libs for qt3 on a FreeBSD system renamed to 
>libqui.so ???
>
>I'm driving developers on the LyX mailinglist crazy. I provide them with 
>the FreeBSD input,
>but I'm getting lots of negative comments on the FreeBSD way of doing Qt.
>
>Quote: "What is it with FreeBSD and stupid renamings of libraries ? Don't 
>they realise how
>         painful qt.m4 is ?"
>
>Why not using the common libqt.so with qt3?
>
>Regards,
>Rob.

As far as I know, and certainly on my FreeBSD computers, the library
is named libqt-mt.so.  It's compiled as a multithreaded library, which
is why the -mt is appended.

libqui.so is another library, used by Designer, uic and friends, and
is not the core qt library.

Hope this helps.


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Erik H. Bakke


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