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Bug#338380: qt4-designer: please provide a pure debug build of designer



On 09.11.05 16:04:46, Brian Nelson wrote:
> Andreas Pakulat <apaku@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> > today I was struck by designer and release vs. debug built of Qt4. I
> > have a Custom Widget which is visible in designer when I have no logic
> > in it. But it completely "breaks" designer if I put the real code in it,
> > the solution to this is that the widget uses a shared library. This
> > library is built in debug mode (the custom widget is built with release
> > mode) and that was the cause. Now I have to built the widget in release
> > mode, because Qt4 was built using release or the combined release+debug
> > building mode (in which case, designer gets built in release mode).
> > Designer can thus only load widgets which are built in the same mode as
> > designer itself and as you can see all libraries these widgets depend
> > upon need to use release built too. 
> >
> > So the conclusion is: Please provide 2 designer packages, one using
> > release built and one using a debug-only built of Qt4. I know this means
> > building Qt4 twice for each update, but it's not possible to debug any
> > custom widget in the current setup due to the missing debug symbols.
> 
> I'd rather wait and see what kind of improvements go into the designer
> in Qt4.1.  The current version has proven to be very buggy, and this
> seems like something that should definitely be supported by a single
> designer binary.

Ok, I can live with that (as Qt 4.1 shouldn't be too far away) and in
the meantime I'll either use self-compiled Qt4 in my $HOME or rebuilt
the qt4-package in debug-mode only (changing debian/rules)...

Thanks for the fast answer.

Andreas

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