[KDE/Mac] qt5-mac-devel -> KF5

[René JV Bertin]

> On 21 Feb 2015, at 03:16, Ian Wadham <iandw.au at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On 18/02/2015, at 11:00 PM, René J.V. Bertin wrote:
>> 
>> On Wednesday February 18 2015 22:07:30 Ian Wadham wrote:
>> 
>>>> I *think* that cmake and/or the Qt cmake scripts have a variable you can use to point it to the correct qmake executable.
>>> 
>>> Maybe, maybe not, but it is easy to prepend the required .../bin to $PATH, which
>>> you need to do anyway if you are not using /opt/local/bin for Qt 5.
>> 
>> It's not the intention that you have to add /opt/local/libexec/qt*/bin to the path. That's what the *-qt* links are for, and that's what qtchooser is intended to help circumvent too.
>> 
>>>> I guess I could have a look if I can't change qtchooser to support the non-concurrent qt4-mac but that will have to wait until next week.
>>> 
>>> I am not keen on using qtchooser.  It is a Ubuntu thing apparently.  Would
>>> it introduce another dependency?
>> 
>> No, it's a "Thiago thing". He wrote it. Then again, when I say I took my layout inspiration from Linux, that boils down to Ubuntu because that's what I'm running. As good a generalists' Linux example to take inspiration for MacPorts from as any, and probably one of the better/best thought out.
> 
> Well, I'm a SuSE man myself, so let's agree to differ… :-)

Suse is a drink for me :)

> 
>>> And anyway, where do you find qtchooser?  I have tried "which", "port search" and Google.
>> 
>> There's a submission for it on trac. You'll probably be able to figure out how to edit its configuration file(s) to cope with the legacy qt4-mac port yourself; it just needs to be pointed to the Qt bin dir and the lib dir.
> 
> I had a look at the trac entry, but it contains very little new information about qtchooser.
> Neither does the "Qt interest" thread on qtchooser.
> 
>> I realise though that it might be impossible to set it up for the legacy qt4-mac port if that indeed installs qmake, moc etc. in /opt/local/bin . You'd get a name clash ... bummer!
> 
> I will just add the location of Qt5's qmake to $PATH.  The location is edited just once into one
> setup script.  That script will be activated only if I "cd" to my Qt5/KF5 development area and
> the change in $PATH will only apply within the Shell (Terminal window) that does the "cd".

Please try without first. I'm unsure if I transmitted the message, but the Qt5 cmake scripts already contain that path, hardcoded. It'd be interesting to know if it "just works" in your use case too, no?

> 
> The technique will take care of either the CURRENT qt4-mac port (not "legacy") or the
> qt5-mac-devel port.  No problem.  No need of qtchooser on my part.
> 
> Cheers, Ian W.
> 
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