[bt-devel] bt-static

[Brook Humphrey]

On Monday 28 May 2001 03:53 am, you wrote:
> Brook (and others who are willing to help with some testing),
>
> may I ask you for a favor?
> It would be great if you could test bt-static. Please give a report on what
> is working and what not, where it is crashing etc.
>
> Joachim told me that for example there may be problems with the kfiledialog
> because it tries to open a mimetype-database from the kde directory, but he
> was not sure about what really happens at runtime. Maybe there are other
> issues like this? This might be a simple problem: we could just use #ifdef
> DSTATIC and use a qfiledialog instead of a kfiledialog.

kfile is compiled in as static so this should not be a problem

>
> You could use a kde system for testing. Just rename the kde (1 and 2) dirs,
> the qt dir, $home/.kde and $home/.kde2 and unset $KDEDIR(S) and $QTDIR.

what whould be the exact commands here? Log into gnome and type 
KDEDIR=/opt/null 
QTDIR=/opt/null

or something like this.

>
> It would really be great if you could do this.
> It is very important because
> a) the static build should work well
> b) it looks like BibleTime is the first KDE app which also runs in non-kde
> systems. We can use this to generate PR at slashdot (might be pretty
> explosive) etc., but we must make sure it really works. Otherwise we'll be
> in trouble. ;)
>
> Thanks for all your efforts.
> BTW: maybe the release schedule will have to be changed again. There are
> some new bugs on sourceforge, and this issue has to be fixed before the
> release.
>
> Martin

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