[kde-freebsd] ports/126820: [patch] devel/qt4-moc refuses to configure/compile

[Andy Fawcett]

Perfect, thanks Volker.

And yes, you're right, the moderator had the post (I'm the mod, and 
missed it!) Sorry ;)

Andy

On Monday 25 August 2008 20:35:54 Volker wrote:
> On 08/25/08 15:55, Andrew Fawcett wrote:
> > On Monday 25 August 2008 16:45:08 Martin Wilke wrote:
> >> On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 01:34:23PM +0000, vwe at FreeBSD.org wrote:
> >>> Synopsis: [patch] devel/qt4-moc refuses to configure/compile
> >>>
> >>> State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
> >>> State-Changed-By: vwe
> >>> State-Changed-When: Mon Aug 25 13:34:02 UTC 2008
> >>> State-Changed-Why:
> >>
> >> Note: we solved all via privat mail.
> >
> > Please add a note to say this to the PR, for completeness.
>
> I forgot to file a comment while closing the PR (did that under
> stress).
>
> But a mailing list posting has been done 14 minutes before you've
> complained about that (I think the posting might have been put on
> hold by the mailing list moderators).
>
> Again, the problem was caused by a global environment variable set to
> a wrong value (I even doubt about the need of setting this globally
> but somebody else in our company thought it might be a good idea).
>
> For the archives, the solution to "your compiler/system is not
> supported" messages are:
>
> - unset the environment variable QMAKESPEC or
> - set it to the correct value
> /usr/local/share/qt4/mkspecs/freebsd-g++ (only for FreeBSD, of course
> ;) or
> - change the line "^QMAKESPEC?=" to "^QMAKESPEC=" in
> /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.qt.mk
>
> also the following may be used as one-timers:
>
> bourne users:
>
> QMAKESPEC=/usr/local/share/qt4/mkspecs/freebsd-g++ \
>  (cd /usr/ports/devel/$ANYQTPORT; make install clean)
>
> cshell users:
>
> setenv QMAKESPEC /usr/local/share/qt4/mkspecs/freebsd-g++; \
>  cd $ANYQTPORT ; make install clean
>
> or even unset QMAKESPEC before. This may also be used with
> portupgrade instead of "make install clean". One may find many more
> ways to fix this if it's clear to get into this problem if it's just
> a QMAKESPEC problem.
>
> I think more users will run into this if they're also using cmake.
> The setting used to get cmake running "QMAKESPEC=freebsd-g++" was bad
> for the FreeBSD ports system. I guess more cmake users might have
> such a (global) setting causing their portupgrade to fail. Hopefully
> they'll find this message in the archives.
>
> Andrew, I hope this explanation fits your needs :)
>
> Volker

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