Finding qmake

[Alexander Neundorf]

Hi,

On Friday 23 June 2006 14:44, you wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Currently, FindQt4.cmake searches for "qmake" before "qmake-qt4". I think
> that's wrong and that it should be reversed.
>
> Why: When qmake (from Qt3) and qmake-qt4 are in the $PATH, the check fails
> unless the order is reversed.
>
> Why not: I can't see any reason why not.
>
> I'm asking because my commit r544680 was reversed by Alexander Neundorf in
> r549218. I contacted him, but he wouldn't provide me with any
> justification. 

Privately or to kde-commits ? Please reply privately if it is important.

> His commit message is as follows:
>
> "first check for qmake, then for qmake-qt4, this is in sync with cmake's
> FindQt4.cmake and better for us (as we use qt-copy)"
>
> My rebuttal:
>
> 1) "In sync with cmake's FindQt4.cmake": Yes, that's why the fix should be
> sent upstream. It's not a reason to preserve a bug.
>
> 2) "Better for us (as we use qt-copy)": I simply don't understand that
> argument. If qmake-qt4 isn't found, it will look for qmake. So the one
> residing in qt-copy would be used, and everyone is happy.

No, not the people who have an up-to-date qt-copy qmake but an 
not-recent-enough qmake-qt4 from debian.
Some people complained and will complain that qmake-qt4 is found although that 
one is from the installed Qt4 which is too old instead of the qmake installed 
from qt-copy which is always named qmake.

> Alexander also provided the following suggestion: "consider adjusting PATH
> or specifying QT4_QMAKE_EXECUTABLE directly." Adjusting PATH is not an
> option because both qmake and qmake-qt4 live in /usr/bin on my system
> (Debian). I tried specifying QT4_QMAKE_EXECUTABLE directly, but cmake
> forgets the value when it is re-run automatically (for example, when you
> modify a .cmake).

This should not happen. The exact name is QT_QMAKE_EXECUTABLE, maybe it was 
just a typo on your side ?

If nothing else helps, how about creating a directory qt4-bin/ in your home 
and put symlinks to the qt4-executables there and put this as the first 
directory in your path ?

I really think there is no way to deal with all possible combinations of Qt3 
qmake, Qt4 qmake, Qt4 qmake-qt4 and qt-copy qmake autmatically correct.

Bye
Alex
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