Finding qmake

Alexander Neundorf neundorf at kde.org
Sat Jan 6 19:21:42 CET 2007


On Saturday 06 January 2007 19:08, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> Łukasz Jernaś wrote:
> >Hello.
> >
> >I'm new to the list and KDE4, but as a long time KDE user I just had to
> > check out trunk :)
> >Sadly I've noticed two small errors which prevented kdelibs to build on
> > my system (with distro Qt4 package - yes I know it won't built with it
> > although it 4.2.2 but I just wanted to try :). CMake couldn't find
> > qmake, because it's name is a little bit different from that in other
> > distributions (I'm using PLD Linux Distribution) and also the qdbus*2*
> > utils are localted elsewhere. The attached patch should fix it.
>
> Distributions have to stop renaming qmake. By the end of the year, we'll
> have 30 different permutations to detect. Couldn't they at least agree to
> rename it to the *same* thing?
>
> Łukasz, can you file a bug report against PLD and have them use one of the
> names that distributions already use?

Yes, Łukasz, *please* do so, qmake-qt4 would be prefered, that's what's done 
it debian too. For now, just make a symlink on your system.

> As for the qdbus*2* tools, your patch is not acceptable. $QTDIR is not to
> be used. Once the correct qmake is found, we know where the tools are
> because they are in the same dir (and moc is in the same dir too).

Yes.

Bye
Alex
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