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

[Ben Cooksley]

On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 9:59 PM, Alex Merry <alex.merry at kde.org> wrote:
> On Tuesday 27 May 2014 17:30:56 Ben Cooksley wrote:
>> On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 9:04 PM, Alex Merry <alex.merry at kde.org> wrote:
>> > On Monday 26 May 2014 19:41:33 Ben Cooksley wrote:
>> >> On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 7:38 PM,  <mk-lists at email.de> wrote:
>> >> > On 26 May 2014, at 09:35 , Ben Cooksley <bcooksley at kde.org> wrote:
>> >> >> 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.
>> >> >
>> >> > Well, sure, I don’t want it now in /Applications for the CI system!
>> >> > How do we achieve installing it in the installation prefix then?
>> >>
>> >> You will need to wait for the CMake folks here to comment regarding
>> >> that i'm afraid.
>> >> As for /Applications, i'm assuming OS X doesn't give it any special
>> >> treatment...
>> >
>> > You need to pass
>> > -DCMAKE_INSTALL_BUNDLEDIR=some/relative/path
>> > to cmake. Possibly the default should change from an absolute path, I
>> > don't
>> > know, but we do want the defaults to be useful outside the CI system.
>>
>> Thanks for those details. I'm not sure what the defaults should be -
>> but I do agree that they should be usable outside the CI system.
>> Are there any other paths that OS X hardcodes which we should be wary of?
>
> No, that's the only path that is absolute, and the only path that is special
> to OS X (all the other paths are the same on OS X as on other UNIX systems).

Hmm. What about "Application Support" which kdoctools appears to use?

>
> Alex

Thanks,
Ben

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