[kde-freebsd] qt upgrade strangeness

[Michael Nottebrock]

On Monday, 16. April 2007, Andy Fawcett wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: John Nielsen [mailto:lists at jnielsen.net]
> > Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2007 19:32
> > To: kde at freebsd.org
> > Cc: x11 at freebsd.org
> > Subject: Re: [kde-freebsd] qt upgrade strangeness
> >
> > On Thursday 05 April 2007 12:29:27 pm John Nielsen wrote:
> > > I've had some trouble upgrading qt on two different machines now. I'm
> >
> > using
> >
> > > the experimental Xorg git ports tree on both and I'm not sure if that's
> >
> > a
> >
> > > factor, which is why I'm CC-ing x11 at .
> > >
> > > In short, qt will install happily the first time but not the second. It
> > > looks to my untrained eye like building [an upgraded] qt when qt is
> >
> > already
> >
> > > installed somehow taints the build. The build will complete
> >
> > successfully,
> >
> > > but it will fail during the install step whether or not the old qt was
> > > uninstalled between the make and install steps--I tried an install
> >
> > without
> >
> > > uninstalling the old one using FORCE_PKG_REGISTER and it failed
> > > differently, but it still failed. However, if qt and qmake are removed
> > > completely before starting the [new] build for qt, it will install just
> > > fine.
> > >
> > > I'd like to determine if 1) this is a known problem and 2) this is
> >
> > specific
> >
> > > to the Xorg ports tree so I know whether or not to send in a PR.
> >
> > I forgot to mention this was during an attempt to update qt from qt-copy-
> > 3.3.8
> > to qt-copy-3.3.8_1 on a 7-CURRENT (as of several days ago) box. I also
> > saw the problem on a previous qt upgrade on a machine running 6-STABLE
> > several weeks ago.
>
> Originally I reported that I wasn't seeing this.
>
> Now, I've just updated to the very latest git X11 ports, with X11BASE
> migrated to LOCALBASE, and get this problem.
>
> cd src/moc && make
> cd src/moc && make install
> cp -f "../../bin/moc" "/usr/local/bin/moc"
> cd src && make
> make: don't know how to make /usr/local/include/qconfig.h. Stop
> *** Error code 2
>
>
> Quite weird, I've never seen this before.

I dimly remember seeing that before - I don't think Qt/qmake can actually 
handle a PREFIX-move cleanly and once the prefix has changed, it has to be 
deinstalled *before* rebuilding it, or else this will happen.


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