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<p>Hum. Before being passed to <tt style="background: #ebebeb; font-size: 13px;">rt->pathInHost()</tt>, the compiler path gets wrapped into <tt style="background: #ebebeb; font-size: 13px;">KDevelop::Path</tt>. Doesn't this make it absolute/invalid? Judging from <tt style="background: #ebebeb; font-size: 13px;">Path::Path(QString)</tt> constructor, it should't even accept things like <tt style="background: #ebebeb; font-size: 13px;">"gcc"</tt>.</p>

<p>And what are we checking there? I still don't make any sense from this check.</p></div>
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<p>you are right, this code should essentially do <tt style="background: #ebebeb; font-size: 13px;">if (rt->findExecutable(compiler->path().isEmpty()) continue;</tt>, could you introduce that please?</p>

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<ul class="remarkup-list">
<li class="remarkup-list-item"><tt style="background: #ebebeb; font-size: 13px;">compiler->path() == "gcc"</tt>, i.e. not absolute</li>
<li class="remarkup-list-item"><tt style="background: #ebebeb; font-size: 13px;">QStandardpaths::findExecutable("gcc", path)</tt> should always return false for all the entries in your <tt style="background: #ebebeb; font-size: 13px;">PATH</tt></li>
<li class="remarkup-list-item">we should thus never set the gcc compiler
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please debug why the above didn't work for you</li>
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<p>Are you talking about old code? Then it is not <tt style="background: #ebebeb; font-size: 13px;">QStandardpaths::findExecutable("gcc", path)</tt> that doesn't work for me, it is <tt style="background: #ebebeb; font-size: 13px;">QFileInfo::exists(rt->pathInHost())</tt> part. Why do we skip adding a compiler if it <strong>does</strong> exist?</p></blockquote>

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<div style="font: 11px/15px "Menlo", "Consolas", "Monaco", monospace; white-space: pre-wrap; clear: both; padding: 4px 0; margin: 0;"><div style="padding: 0 8px; margin: 0 4px; background: rgba(251, 175, 175, .7);">        <span class="bright"></span><span style="color: #aa4000"><span class="bright">const</span></span><span class="bright"> </span><span style="color: #aa4000"><span class="bright">bool</span></span><span class="bright"> </span><span class="n"><span class="bright">absolutePath</span></span><span class="bright"> </span><span style="color: #aa2211"><span class="bright">=</span></span><span class="bright"> </span><span class="n"><span class="bright">QDir</span></span><span class="bright"></span><span style="color: #aa2211"><span class="bright">::</span></span><span class="bright"></span><span class="n"><span class="bright">isAbsolute</span>Path</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">compiler</span><span style="color: #aa2211">-></span><span class="n">path</span><span class="p">())<span class="bright">;</span></span>
</div><div style="padding: 0 8px; margin: 0 4px; background: rgba(251, 175, 175, .7);">        <span class="bright"></span><span style="color: #aa4000"><span class="bright">if</span></span><span class="bright"> </span><span class="p"><span class="bright">((</span></span><span class="bright"></span><span class="n"><span class="bright">absolute</span>Path<span class="bright"></span></span><span class="bright"> </span><span style="color: #aa2211"><span class="bright">&&</span></span><span class="bright"> </span><span class="n">QFileInfo<span class="bright"></span></span><span class="bright"></span><span style="color: #aa2211"><span class="bright">::</span></span><span class="bright"></span><span class="n"><span class="bright">exists</span></span><span class="bright"></span><span class="p"><span class="bright">(</span></span><span class="bright"></span><span class="n"><span class="bright">rt</span></span><span class="bright"></span><span style="color: #aa2211"><span class="bright">-></span></span><span class="bright"></span><span class="n"><span class="bright">pathInHost</span></span><span class="bright"></span><span class="p"><span class="bright">(</span></span><span class="bright"></span><span class="n"><span class="bright">Path</span></span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">compiler</span><span style="color: #aa2211">-></span><span class="n">path</span><span class="p">())<span class="bright">).</span></span><span class="bright"></span><span class="n"><span class="bright">toLocalFile</span></span><span class="bright"></span><span class="p"><span class="bright">()</span>))</span>
</div><div style="padding: 0 8px; margin: 0 4px; background: rgba(251, 175, 175, .7);">            <span style="color: #aa2211">||</span> <span class="n">QStandardPaths</span><span style="color: #aa2211">::</span><span class="n">findExecutable</span><span class="p">(</span> <span class="n">compiler</span><span style="color: #aa2211">-></span><span class="n">path</span><span class="p">(),</span> <span class="n">path</span><span class="p">).</span><span class="n">isEmpty</span><span class="p">()</span> <span class="p">)</span> <span class="p">{</span>
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</div><div style="padding: 0 8px; margin: 0 4px; background: rgba(151, 234, 151, .6);">        <span class="bright">    </span><span style="color: #aa2211"><span class="bright">||</span></span><span class="bright"> </span><span class="n"><span class="bright">QStandard</span>Path<span class="bright">s</span></span><span class="bright"></span><span style="color: #aa2211"><span class="bright">::</span></span><span class="bright"></span><span class="n"><span class="bright">findExecutable</span></span><span class="bright"></span><span class="p"><span class="bright">(</span></span><span class="n">QFileInfo</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">compiler</span><span style="color: #aa2211">-></span><span class="n">path</span><span class="p">())<span class="bright">.</span></span><span class="bright"></span><span class="n"><span class="bright">fileName</span></span><span class="bright"></span><span class="p"><span class="bright">(),</span></span><span class="bright"> </span><span class="n"><span class="bright">rtPaths</span></span><span class="bright"></span><span class="p"><span class="bright">).</span></span><span class="bright"></span><span class="n"><span class="bright">isEmpty</span></span><span class="bright"></span><span class="p"><span class="bright">(</span>))</span>
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<div style="margin: 8px 0; padding: 0 12px;"><p style="padding: 0; margin: 8px;">you are right - the issue is that the old code skips compilers when they exist - there's a ! missing in front of the parens here probably</p></div></div></div></div></div><br /><div><strong>REPOSITORY</strong><div><div>R32 KDevelop</div></div></div><br /><div><strong>REVISION DETAIL</strong><div><a href="https://phabricator.kde.org/D5447">https://phabricator.kde.org/D5447</a></div></div><br /><div><strong>To: </strong>arrowd, mwolff, arichardson<br /><strong>Cc: </strong>skalinichev, apol, kdevelop-devel<br /></div>