Trouble with building packages in F16: "The moc has changed too much"

[Nils Philippsen]

On Mon, 2011-08-01 at 19:08 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote:
> On 1 August 2011 15:24, Jaroslav Reznik <jreznik at redhat.com> wrote:
> > It's not very good idea to ship pre-generated moc files, better to
> > autogenerate them during the build-time. PackageKit is using automake,
> > so it's a little bit more difficult but possible, check for example [1].
> 
> Right, I *think* I'm doing the right thing in
> https://gitorious.org/packagekit/packagekit/blobs/master/lib/packagekit-qt/src/Makefile.am
> with the only difference being that I'm shipping the moc files in the
> tarball. Can I just nuke the moc files in the fedora spec file, and
> they'll get regenerated at build time? Or should I remove MOCFILES
> from EXTRA_DIST?

I'm no authority on qt/kde, but the original issue seems to indicate
that moc files should be generated during compilation time (i.e.
shouldn't be shipped in the tarball). Other than increasing compilation
time, this shouldn't be an issue as moc is part of qt-devel.

Nils
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