Re: make xconfig no longer works in Fedora

From: Alexey Brodkin
Date: Mon Nov 02 2015 - 11:28:39 EST


Hi Thiago,

On Mon, 2015-11-02 at 11:01 -0500, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> On Monday 02 November 2015 16:50:33 Michal Marek wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 02, 2015 at 08:46:55AM -0500, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> > > On Monday 02 November 2015 11:36:43 Michal Marek wrote:
> > > > On 2015-11-02 04:20, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> > > > > - qtver=`qmake -query QT_VERSION` || { \
> > > > > + qtver=`qmake -query QT_VERSION` || \
> > > > > + qtver=`qmake-qt5 -query QT_VERSION` || \
> > > > > + qtver=`qmake-qt4 -query QT_VERSION` || { \
> > > >
> > > > The qtlibdir= etc assignments below still use qmake directly, plus this
> > > > will print an error if the command is not called "qmake." As Alexey
> > > > says, we do not need qmake, we need moc and the cflags / ldflags. Since
> > > > pkg-config worked for us previously, I suggest to use pkg-config again
> > > > and just check which of QtGui or Qt5Widgets is available.
> > >
> > > Here's an attempt using pkg-config.
> >
> > Works for me on openSUSE, it just started to prefer Qt5 now. But it
> > correctly builds against Qt4 if Qt5 is not available.
>
> That's a consequence of using pkg-config. Now you can no longer choose your
> preferred Qt version by setting QT_SELECT, like the qmake solution would have
> allowed, as recommended by the Qt Project. At least, the qtchooser shell
> function extension does set PKG_CONFIG_PATH, so if you install a different
> version elsewhere, that version should be picked up.
>
> It would have been the same with CMake too, btw.
>
> Alexey, did this solve the problem for you?

Yep, thanks a lot.
"make xconfig" now works for me!

-Alexey