Here is a patch to adjust the directory layout of qtbase:
>From b264ccfdec5c7334ef7e428c8b483bc673edc393 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?=E5=AE=8B=E6=96=87=E6=AD=A6?= <iyzs...@member.fsf.org>
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2017 22:52:41 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] gnu: qtbase: Use a more standard directory layout.
* gnu/packages/qt.scm (qtbase)[arguments]: Pass docdir, headerdir,
archdatadir, datadir and examplesdir to 'configure'. Ajdust the
patch-qt_config.prf phase accordingly.
[native-search-paths]: Adjust accordingly.
---
gnu/packages/qt.scm | 31 +++++++++++++++----------------
1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
diff --git a/gnu/packages/qt.scm b/gnu/packages/qt.scm
index 3e3588a50..2d7c83ae5 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/qt.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/qt.scm
@@ -459,6 +459,12 @@ developers using C++ or QML, a CSS & JavaScript like language.")
"./configure"
"-verbose"
"-prefix" out
+ "-docdir" (string-append out "/share/doc/qt5")
+ "-headerdir" (string-append out "/include/qt5")
+ "-archdatadir" (string-append out "/lib/qt5")
+ "-datadir" (string-append out "/share/qt5")
+ "-examplesdir" (string-append
+ out "/share/doc/qt5/examples")
"-opensource"
"-confirm-license"
;; Do not build examples; if desired, these could go
@@ -488,38 +494,31 @@ developers using C++ or QML, a CSS & JavaScript like language.")
(add-after 'install 'patch-qt_config.prf
(lambda* (#:key outputs #:allow-other-keys)
(let* ((out (assoc-ref outputs "out"))
+ (mkspecs (string-append out "/lib/qt5/mkspecs"))
(qt_config.prf (string-append
- out "/mkspecs/features/qt_config.prf")))
+ mkspecs "/features/qt_config.prf")))
;; For each Qt module, let `qmake' uses search paths in the
;; module directory instead of all in QT_INSTALL_PREFIX.
(substitute* qt_config.prf
(("\\$\\$\\[QT_INSTALL_HEADERS\\]")
- "$$replace(dir, mkspecs/modules, include)")
+ "$$clean_path($$replace(dir, mkspecs/modules, ../../include/qt5))")
(("\\$\\$\\[QT_INSTALL_LIBS\\]")
- "$$replace(dir, mkspecs/modules, lib)")
+ "$$clean_path($$replace(dir, mkspecs/modules, ../../lib))")
(("\\$\\$\\[QT_HOST_LIBS\\]")
- "$$replace(dir, mkspecs/modules, lib)")
- (("\\$\\$\\[QT_INSTALL_PLUGINS\\]")
- "$$replace(dir, mkspecs/modules, plugins)")
- (("\\$\\$\\[QT_INSTALL_LIBEXECS\\]")
- "$$replace(dir, mkspecs/modules, libexec)")
+ "$$clean_path($$replace(dir, mkspecs/modules, ../../lib))")
(("\\$\\$\\[QT_INSTALL_BINS\\]")
- "$$replace(dir, mkspecs/modules, bin)")
- (("\\$\\$\\[QT_INSTALL_IMPORTS\\]")
- "$$replace(dir, mkspecs/modules, imports)")
- (("\\$\\$\\[QT_INSTALL_QML\\]")
- "$$replace(dir, mkspecs/modules, qml)"))
+ "$$clean_path($$replace(dir, mkspecs/modules, ../../bin))"))
#t))))))
(native-search-paths
(list (search-path-specification
(variable "QMAKEPATH")
- (files '("")))
+ (files '("lib/qt5")))
(search-path-specification
(variable "QML2_IMPORT_PATH")
- (files '("qml")))
+ (files '("lib/qt5/qml")))
(search-path-specification
(variable "QT_PLUGIN_PATH")
- (files '("plugins")))
+ (files '("lib/qt5/plugins")))
(search-path-specification
(variable "XDG_DATA_DIRS")
(files '("share")))
--
2.13.3
I have built qtscript with it, which looks fine so far.
