QT_PLUGIN_PATH (Re: Install kimgio plugins in the Qt image format plugins dir)

[Brad Hards]

On Saturday 27 October 2007 02:51:41 am Thiago Macieira wrote:
> - make it configurable via -D switch in the cmake command-line
> - default to something inside ${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}
> - print at the end of configure that you need to set QT_PLUGIN_PATH
> - do not check Qt's plugin path, ever
My concern is that this will cause breakage at run-time (when QCA can't find 
its plugins, it doesn't really do much), because people won't set the plugin 
path, or will change it to something else when they install kdelibs to a 
different prefix.

Why do you think that we shouldn't expect people who build from source to be 
able to install it to the same place that they installed Qt?

If users are reliant on system Qt (i.e. they don't use qt-copy), then why not 
expect them to also use the system QCA? 

Brad