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List:       macports-users
Subject:    Re: What happened to qt4-mac's qmake utility (re High Sierra v. Lion)?
From:       Ian Wadham <iandw.au () gmail ! com>
Date:       2017-11-23 6:37:27
Message-ID: 31AE1429-2478-4524-9F94-41ABD677EF8F () gmail ! com
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> On 23 Nov 2017, at 4:38 pm, Nicolas Pavillon <pavillon.nicolas@gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't think the change in prefix is platform dependent. This happened quite some \
> time ago to allow co-installation of both qt5 and qt4-mac (see \
> https://trac.macports.org/changeset/140960). As far as ports are concerned, their \
> compilation should have been fixed also quite some time ago. If you need to find \
> specific qt4 components in your own codes, I imagine that setting QTDIR should be \
> enough (just a wild guess), which is now set to ${prefix}/libexec/qt4.

Thanks, Nicolas, I might try that. Nice to see you are still around... :-)
Cheers, Ian W.

> > On Nov23, 2017, at 12:36, Ian Wadham <iandw.au@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > I have been setting up a new MacBook Pro 13-inch with High Sierra.
> > Macports is building and running fine with qt4-mac, kdegames4 and kmymoney4
> > requested and a long list of dependencies installed.
> > 
> > Now I am trying to resurrect some of the KDE 4 source-code and applications
> > I used to work on when I was a KDE developer. I brought across a bunch of source
> > from my old MacBook Pro (2011 vintage and using Lion). But when I went to build
> > it CMake failed during its checks of the software and hardware environment, which
> > it does before starting to generate a makefile and build.
> > 
> > Specifically, CMake could not find qmake, Qt's utility for generating builds. \
> > Using "port contents" I found that qt4-mac @4.8.7_5 has qmake installed at \
> > /opt/local/bin on Lion, but on High Sierra it is at /opt/local/libexec/qt4/bin, \
> > which is not in my $PATH. 
> > So why has qmake moved?
> > 
> > And what should I add to my $PATH, /opt/local/libexec/qt4/bin? Or would \
> > /opt/local/libexec be enough (and more general)? Or perhaps CMake needs some \
> > option? 
> > All the best, Ian W.
> > 
> 


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