From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark H Weaver Subject: Re: Building gpgme with Qt support? Date: Sun, 04 Jun 2017 19:52:27 -0400 Message-ID: <87d1aj71l0.fsf@netris.org> References: <5934503C.3060101@crazy-compilers.com> <20170604183540.GA2840@jasmine> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54613) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dHfK9-0006zg-AR for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Jun 2017 19:52:46 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dHfK6-0004Mo-AC for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Jun 2017 19:52:45 -0400 Received: from world.peace.net ([50.252.239.5]:54915) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dHfK6-0004L4-5N for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Jun 2017 19:52:42 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20170604183540.GA2840@jasmine> (Leo Famulari's message of "Sun, 4 Jun 2017 14:35:40 -0400") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Leo Famulari Cc: guix-devel Leo Famulari writes: > On Sun, Jun 04, 2017 at 08:23:56PM +0200, Hartmut Goebel wrote: >> Hi, >> >> since version 1.7 gpgme [1] includes both the C++ bindings (former >> package: gpgmepp) and the Qt-Framework API (former package qgpgme, not >> in guix). >> >> Our gpgme package is currently build *without* support for Qt: >> >> checking for GPGME_QT... checking for GPGME_QTTEST... ./configure: line 18672: : command not found >> configure: WARNING: >> *** >> *** Qt5 (Qt5Core) not found Qt Binding will be disabled. >> *** >> >> The major draw-back of adding these bindings is that this would install >> qtcore (and all it's dependencies) for any application using gpgme. >> >> How can we avoid this? > > Could we make a new package qt-gpgme that inherits from gpgme and provides a > QT-enabled gpgme?? If there's a need for Qt-enabled gpgme, then I think this is the right approach. I feel strongly that our primary gpgme package should *not* depend on Qt. Thanks, Mark