Sent: Monday, February 02, 2015 at 6:25 PM From: "Ken Moffat" <[email protected]> To: "BLFS Support List" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [blfs-support] QT binary problems On Mon, Feb 02, 2015 at 12:43:07PM +0100, Cliff McDiarmid wrote: > Hi > > I recently built Qt-4.6.6 into LFS7.6 as part of a BLFS install. Followed the > instructions to the letter. Two problems though, which one is now giving me > problems. > > At the configure stage QT would not except commands like: > > '-plugindir $QT4PREFIX/lib/qt4/plugins' > > despite having passed the env. variable 'export QT4PREFIX=/opt/qt4'. > > So I omitted these (eight in total)and settled for an install without an qt4 > dir. > > I was able to use '-bindir $QT4BINDIR' and pushed on with the compilation and > install. > > But the 'bin' directory was never installed, I had to do it manually. I > removed references to the build directory in all cases as per instructions. > > Anyway the point is, software being installed is not finding the QT binaries. > I have a message: > > 'The Qt binaries are in > /home/qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.8.6/-confirm-license'.
>For the general questions, I have no idea. In the absence of any >other ideas, if you have to reinstall I would spell everything out >in full, e.g. -plugindir /opt/qt4/lib/qt4/plugins. >But for "software being installed..." I surmise that the pkgconfig >files did get insstalled (otherwise, how is it finding a reference >to where they are), but are damaged. That -confirm-license in >what ought to be a directory name implies that what got passed to >configure was incorrect. Neither have I, so I'm reinstalling and not trying to solve this binary issue. As it happens, I ran the configure again tonight from a fresh QT dir. and there was no probs., so am building tomorrow when I can leave the laptop for 2 hours plus. What a build QT is! thanks to both of you MAC -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
