build: If both Qt4 and Qt5 are installed, use Qt5 #6938
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Concept ACK |
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Please also remove |
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Concept ACK On Wednesday, November 4, 2015, paveljanik [email protected] wrote:
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But that means you may end up without a GUI at all, if the proper dependencies cannot be found. Is that the intended behavior? If not, actively setting a GUI makes sense |
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utACK!
We should definitively keep this. |
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@laanwj IMO |
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I think |
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I'm happy with setting the |
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agree with @paveljanik |
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I have no clue what happens if you do --with-gui without argument. Have you tested? You can do --without-gui if you want to build without GUI. The default if you don't provide it is auto, which means that (with this pull), it will
I have no intention of changing the semantics there. The only thing I'm changing is what Qt is selected by default, which IMO should be Qt5. |
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Agree. --with-gui already does auto-select. But right,.. as @laanwj mention, this PR would only change this auto-behavior to Qt5 instead of Qt4. Do we need adaptation here:? |
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@jonasschnelli good catch, updated |
If both Qt4 and Qt5 development headers are installed, use Qt5. Building against Qt5 should be encouraged as that is where active development happens.
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I just want to save the work again at qt6 bumb: just do not document the qt version in the |
dbacc69 build: If both Qt4 and Qt5 are installed, use Qt5 (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
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Shouldn't the preferred Qt be based on what the OS default is configured for...? |
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@luke-jr That may have been a better choice in the beginning, but right now, we're slowly moving away from Qt4. I expect to retain compatibility for the foreseeable future, but the GUI experience may be worse than Qt5, so we pick what is best for us. |
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Note: I need to set |
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Tested ACK. Nice, bitcoin-qt looks so much more clean when built with qt5! (No missing icons, styles, etc.) |
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If both Qt4 and Qt5 development headers are installed, use Qt5. Building against Qt5 should be encouraged as that is where active development happens.