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

[Alex Merry]

On 29/05/14 08:05, Ben Cooksley wrote:
> On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 8:08 AM, Marko Käning <mk-lists at email.de> wrote:
>> Could not locate file "kf5/kdoctools/customization" in ("/Users/kdeci/Library/Application Support", "/Library/Application Support")
>> ---
>> which leaves me a little puzzled now.
> 
> It is nothing to do with the installation parameters now. What needs
> to be adjusted is kdoctools - we'll need to help it find things within
> the install prefix. Is there a environment variable which we can set
> which the code in question (which I assume uses QStandardPaths) will
> follow?
> 
> In terms of the value of DATA_INSTALL_DIR, I suggest you examine the
> install jail (located at $WORKSPACE/install/) to determine where the
> files are actually being placed and act accordingly.

Ah. This. QStandardPaths appears to have no way to provide custom
prefixes on Mac or Windows, which is an issue for setups like this.

Submitting a Qt patch to provide a cross-platform, Qt-specific
equivalent to the XDG_* variables has been suggested, but I don't what
came of that.

Alex