qt-copy broken

[Andreas Pakulat]

On 23.09.08 23:12:49, Michael Pyne wrote:
> On Monday 22 September 2008, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> > On 23.09.08 00:14:05, Alex Merry wrote:
> > > On Monday 22 September 2008 23:55:18 Michael Pyne wrote:
> > > > I'll look at it but I think the change in question is that kdesvn-build
> > > > no longer copies anything over for qt-copy.  i.e. it assumes that the
> > > > configure script can be run in a different build directory than the
> > > > source directory like with automake and cmake.
> > >
> > > Up to about 3 or 4 weeks ago, I built qt-copy in a separate directory
> > > (ie: ../../src/qt-copy/configure -prefix $PWD -other-options && make),
> > > and this always worked fine for me.  So I can't see why it should
> > > suddenly stop working now, if this is what kdesvn-build does.
> >
> > Two notes:
> >
> > a) its been broken very recently, i.e. after the switch to 4.4.2
> > probably
> > b) I'm using -prefix != $PWD, i.e. a real installation
> 
> I've rebuilt it with kdesvn-build today and QtGlobal was not installed.  
> However kdesvn-build shouldn't do anything that should cause this so I'm 
> rebuilding manually to see if there's a difference.  It's not done yet but I'm 
> going to sleep, I'll write back tomorrow with the results.

Its Patch 0250 thats causing the problem. Its supposed to be used on
win32 only, but apparently has some side-effects. Christian Ehrlicher is
aware of it, but I guess he wouldn't mind some help from a Perl expert
:)

Andreas
 
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