Bug 201239 – QMAKESPEC environment variable should not be set for QT4.x

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Tom Cooksey 2007-12-04 15:33:45 UTC]

QMAKESPEC is currently being set in /etc/env.d/44qt4

QMAKESPEC is not needed for QT4 and when set, can cause issues when building Qtopia Core (i.e. outside of portage).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Emerge qt4
2. echo $QMAKESPEC
3.

Actual Results:  
linux-g++

Expected Results:  
$QMAKESPEC should not be set (if using a purely qt4 system, i.e. qt3 is not installed)

[Comment 1 Caleb Tennis (RETIRED) 2007-12-04 16:13:35 UTC]

Why should it not be set for qt4?  A quick check of the source shows that qmake's project.cpp utilizes it.

[Comment 2 Tom Cooksey 2007-12-06 09:48:23 UTC]

When configure is run, it will create a symlink called default to the correct mkspec. That is used by default if QMAKESPEC isn't set.

If QMAKESPEC is set, it overides the default. This is fine unless someone wants to compile QT themselves (E.g. to compile Qtopia Core).

[Comment 3 Caleb Tennis (RETIRED) 2007-12-06 11:20:54 UTC]

gotcha.  I'll take a look at removing this in the 4.3.3 ebuild due out real soon.

[Comment 4 Caleb Tennis (RETIRED) 2007-12-10 13:51:36 UTC]

ok, I removed this from 4.3.3.  Thanks for the update.