Comment 52 for bug 664431

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Ricardo Salveti (rsalveti) wrote : Re: [Bug 664431] Re: QT on armel is built with NEON by default

On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 11:58 AM, Oliver Grawert <email address hidden> wrote:
>> There are multiple ways to deal with the speed regression, in a second step:
>> a) we could arrange for an armel PPA with a Qt rebuilt with NEON (this is true of any package BTW); this requires special permission, and ongoing maintenance, but Qt isn't updated frequently in stable releases.
>> b) we could provide a new qt4-x11-neon source package + alternate binaries in maverick-updates
>> c) we could change qt4-x11 to build two sets of libraries, albeit this would be considerably heavier in build time
>
> a) is already implemented for maverick, rsalveti, can you make sure to
> also provide natty builds in the PPA ? so we can finally close this bug
> until upstream fixed their build system and tested runtime detection.

Sure, will post it back when it's available at the PPA.