qmake built in paths are incorrect

[Francis Hart]

Binary package hint: qt4-dev-tools

The qmake tool has built in paths that it uses to determine the location of other qt tools, libs, spec files etc.
These paths are set at compile time when building qmake from the QT SDK.

The version of qmake provided for 64bit ubuntu 10.04, the qt4-qmake package (or qt4-dev-tools) is unusable, as these built in paths are incorrect.

For example, when dumping the built in paths with 'qmake -query', it reports:
QT_INSTALL_BINS:/usr/bin
QT_INSTALL_PREFIX:/usr/bin
QT_INSTALL_DATA:/usr/bin
QT_INSTALL_DOCS:/usr/bin/doc
QT_INSTALL_HEADERS:/usr/bin/include
QT_INSTALL_LIBS:/usr/bin/lib
QT_INSTALL_BINS:/usr/bin/bin
QT_INSTALL_PLUGINS:/usr/bin/../lib/p4v/qt4/plugins
QT_INSTALL_TRANSLATIONS:/usr/bin/../lib/p4v/P4VResources/translations
QT_INSTALL_CONFIGURATION:/usr/bin
QT_INSTALL_EXAMPLES:/usr/bin
QT_INSTALL_DEMOS:/usr/bin
QMAKE_MKSPECS:/usr/bin/mkspecs
QMAKE_VERSION:2.01a
QT_VERSION:4.6.2

One obviously issue is the bin path pointing to /usr/bin/bin, and the mkspecs path pointing to /usr/bin/mkspecs.

I think that when the QT SDK was built, the '-prefix' directory specified in the configure script is incorrect, and does not match when the uduntu package actually places the files.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: qt4-dev-tools 4:4.6.2-0ubuntu5.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-28.55-generic 2.6.32.27+drm33.12
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-28-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Mar 1 14:55:13 2011
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: qt4-x11

[Felix Geyer (debfx)]

Are you sure that you aren't using a custom build of qmake?

[Francis Hart (francis-hart)]

Yes I'm pretty sure its the qmake from the qt4-qmake package.

I'll recheck again tomorrow when I back at work and can access the machine.

I do have a custom QT build on the machine, but it is build from 4.7.1 sources, and was actually only done as a solution to encountering this problem first!

[Terence Simpson (tsimpson)]

These two lines look rather suspicious:
QT_INSTALL_PLUGINS:/usr/bin/../lib/p4v/qt4/plugins
QT_INSTALL_TRANSLATIONS:/usr/bin/../lib/p4v/P4VResources/translations
Do you have something installed like "p4v"?

I can't confirm this on my 64bit 10.04.1:
$ qmake -query
QT_INSTALL_PREFIX:/usr
QT_INSTALL_DATA:/usr/share/qt4
QT_INSTALL_DOCS:/usr/share/qt4/doc
QT_INSTALL_HEADERS:/usr/include/qt4
QT_INSTALL_LIBS:/usr/lib
QT_INSTALL_BINS:/usr/bin
QT_INSTALL_PLUGINS:/usr/lib/qt4/plugins
QT_INSTALL_TRANSLATIONS:/usr/share/qt4/translations
QT_INSTALL_CONFIGURATION:/etc/xdg
QT_INSTALL_EXAMPLES:/usr/lib/qt4/examples
QT_INSTALL_DEMOS:/usr/lib/qt4/demos
QMAKE_MKSPECS:/usr/share/qt4/mkspecs
QMAKE_VERSION:2.01a
QT_VERSION:4.6.2

$ apt-cache policy qt4-dev-tools
qt4-dev-tools:
  Installed: 4:4.6.2-0ubuntu5.1
  Candidate: 4:4.6.2-0ubuntu5.1
  Version table:
 *** 4:4.6.2-0ubuntu5.1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     4:4.6.2-0ubuntu5 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages

[Francis Hart (francis-hart)]

Hi Terence,

Yes, many thanks, that has solved the problem.

p4v was installed on the system, done by copying the contents of the p4v.tgz bin directory to /usr/bin.
This included a 'qt.conf' file, which I guess was interfering with qmake.

Is there an official p4 and p4v package for ubuntu?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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