[kde-freebsd] qt upgrade strangeness

[Michael Nottebrock]

On Tuesday, 17. April 2007, Michael Nottebrock wrote:
> On Monday, 16. April 2007, Andy Fawcett wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: John Nielsen [mailto:lists at jnielsen.net]
> > > Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2007 19:32
> > > To: kde at freebsd.org
> > > Cc: x11 at freebsd.org
> > > Subject: Re: [kde-freebsd] qt upgrade strangeness
> > >
> > > On Thursday 05 April 2007 12:29:27 pm John Nielsen wrote:
> > > > I've had some trouble upgrading qt on two different machines now. I'm
> > >
> > > using
> > >
> > > > the experimental Xorg git ports tree on both and I'm not sure if
> > > > that's
> > >
> > > a
> > >
> > > > factor, which is why I'm CC-ing x11 at .
> > > >
> > > > In short, qt will install happily the first time but not the second.
> > > > It looks to my untrained eye like building [an upgraded] qt when qt
> > > > is
> > >
> > > already
> > >
> > > > installed somehow taints the build. The build will complete
> > >
> > > successfully,
> > >
> > > > but it will fail during the install step whether or not the old qt
> > > > was uninstalled between the make and install steps--I tried an
> > > > install
> > >
> > > without
> > >
> > > > uninstalling the old one using FORCE_PKG_REGISTER and it failed
> > > > differently, but it still failed. However, if qt and qmake are
> > > > removed completely before starting the [new] build for qt, it will
> > > > install just fine.
> > > >
> > > > I'd like to determine if 1) this is a known problem and 2) this is
> > >
> > > specific
> > >
> > > > to the Xorg ports tree so I know whether or not to send in a PR.
> > >
> > > I forgot to mention this was during an attempt to update qt from
> > > qt-copy- 3.3.8
> > > to qt-copy-3.3.8_1 on a 7-CURRENT (as of several days ago) box. I also
> > > saw the problem on a previous qt upgrade on a machine running 6-STABLE
> > > several weeks ago.
> >
> > Originally I reported that I wasn't seeing this.
> >
> > Now, I've just updated to the very latest git X11 ports, with X11BASE
> > migrated to LOCALBASE, and get this problem.
> >
> > cd src/moc && make
> > cd src/moc && make install
> > cp -f "../../bin/moc" "/usr/local/bin/moc"
> > cd src && make
> > make: don't know how to make /usr/local/include/qconfig.h. Stop
> > *** Error code 2
> >
> >
> > Quite weird, I've never seen this before.
>
> I dimly remember seeing that before - I don't think Qt/qmake can actually
> handle a PREFIX-move cleanly and once the prefix has changed, it has to be
> deinstalled *before* rebuilding it, or else this will happen.

Since I understand there will be an update script for the upcoming X.org 
upheaval, this issue would be a prime candidate for handling it in such a 
script. flz, lesi, what do you think?

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