[Buildroot] [PATCH] Add Qt5 packages
Thomas Petazzoni
thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Fri Mar 1 16:54:37 UTC 2013
Dear Floris Bos,
On Fri, 01 Mar 2013 17:39:52 +0100, Floris Bos wrote:
> > If so, then I can include a path that makes fonts.path be
> > $$[QT_INSTALL_PREFIX]/share/fonts/. But Qt has some fonts in
> > lib/fonts/, so maybe we should research how to install them, at least
> > optionally, because they have some fonts in the special Qt format,
> > which may be useful if you don't have a TTF font renderer available.
>
> Sounds good to me.
Do you plan on researching how to get the fonts bundled with Qt
installed, or you want me to look into that?
> Well, I never really understood the need for the glue code in the first
> place either.
> Would rather have seen that they filled a bug report with the GPU
> vendor, and questioned why one needs to call some vendor specific
> function like bcm_host_init(), instead of just the standardized function
> eglInitialize() before
> any EGL/OpenGL ES function works...
> And used some runtime detection system for vendor specific extras like
> hardware accelerated mouse cursor.
> So that ARM Linux distributions could ship universal Qt packages that
> could work on more then one device.
Indeed.
> Anyway, just filling in the location of the glue code in the buildroot
> qmake.conf when the rpi-userland package is selected might be the most
> practical solution.
> Will submit a sample patch to illustrate shortly.
That would be very nice!
Thanks,
Thomas
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