Plasma 5 is awesome...and some help required with build instructions

[Aleix Pol]

On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 7:28 PM, David Edmundson
<david at davidedmundson.co.uk> wrote:
> Just setting up on a new machine and thought I'd try following these
> instructions exactly, the way a new developer would.
>
> I got stuck on something I don't know how to solve.
>
> Under Kubuntu because Qt is compiled with a hardcoded plugindir for some
> reason.
> This means setting QT_PLUGIN_PATH env variables does nothing, which means
> you'll always be loading any plugins from /usr/ rather than the ones we just
> built.
>
> How did you get round that? Any ideas?
>
> David
>
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On Kubuntu, you probably want to enable KDE_INSTALL_USE_QT_SYS_PATHS
cmake option.

Aleix