Martin Costabel wrote:

> The decision what goes where depends additionally on the situation on
> your harddisk: The bad install-directory is chosen only if you have
> certain things installed in /sw/lib/. I suppose this fileFixify stuff
> (which replaces symlinks by the "true" files) is supposed to be useful
> for something, but it is terrible for package building.

Aha!  I knew that traditionally there were issues with qt3's installer,
but didn't recall the details.  I tried changing the package to do "make
install" and it worked for me, so I'd assumed it was fixed.   :)

> In the qt3mac CompileScript, I have the following lines which take care
> of this problem (but this is not obvious, I am not sure if it works in
> all situations):
> 
> # attempt to counterfix qmake's warped fileFixify logic that makes
> install break
> # when %p is a symlink and something exists already at -libdir or
> -datadir etc
> # second, better attempt at unfixifying %p:
>  pushd %p; FixifiedSW=`/bin/pwd`; popd
>  /usr/bin/find . -name Makefile -print0 | xargs -0 perl -pi -e
> "s,\\$\\(INSTALL_ROOT\\)$FixifiedSW,\\$\\(INSTALL_ROOT\\)%p,g"
> #
> 
> I suppose qt3-3.3.6 will have to do something similar.

Awesome, I'll try that right now.


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