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

[Siddhartha]

On 18 May 2015 at 22:58, 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?
>

By using Arch Linux? :P

I did not do anything special in this regard, so I guess on my system
QT_PLUGIN_PATH is being picked up properly.

Btw, you commented out QTDIR in the wiki script, so a few of the later
variables will have weird paths (QTDIR/plugins=/plugins)
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