Issues for Qt5/KF5/KDE/CI system on OSX/MacPorts

[Ben Cooksley]

On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 7:32 PM,  <mk-lists at email.de> wrote:
> Hi Ben,

Hi Marko,

>
> On 26 May 2014, at 09:03 , Ben Cooksley <bcooksley at kde.org> wrote:
>> This is because it was installed to /Applications/ within the
>> installation jail (located at
>> /Users/marko/WC/KDECI-builds/kconfig/local-inst in this instance).
> Yep.
>
>> I've no idea how OS X handles applications/executables - but a
>> solution allowing for them to be contained within the installation
>> prefix is needed (whether assisted by OS X specific environment
>> variables or through other mechanisms).
>>
>> I wonder how Macports, Homebrew, etc. handle this.
> Well, MacPorts tries very hard to keep all files in a dedicated
> tree. The default install prefix is /opt/local. But when installing app
> packages they usually get also linked into MacPorts’ installation
> folder at /Applications/MacPorts/. KDE4 applications then land in the
> subfolder  /Applications/MacPorts/KDE4/ which is why I would suggest
> for KF5 simply to use /Applications/MacPorts/KF5.
>
> But well, this is not to be done on the KDE/CI system. There I would
> suggest to place it below /Applications/KF5 for a start.
>
>
>>> so, why don’t we send KDE’s apps to stg like
>>>        /opt/kde/install/darwin/mavericks/clang/kf5-qt5/kf5/inst/bin
>>> for a start?
>> That is what should be happening. The KF5 CMake logic is disrespecting
>> the install prefix we are specifying. This usually doesn't happen with
>> executables - Qt plugins are notorious for having this issue though
>> (as projects try to install them into the Qt installation prefix).
> Yes, I had spotted that myself in the meantime and already sent a post.
> Normal executables are obviously placed correctly, only application
> packages don’t get moved to where they should reside.

For reasons stated above, application packages cannot reside within
/Applications.
If they need to reside within a separate directory, we'll need to
arrange this - however it needs to be within the installation prefix.

>
> Greets,
> Marko

Thanks,
Ben