[cmake-developers] Qt 4 and 5 on the same system - qmake binary name priority

[Clinton Stimpson]

On Monday, March 11, 2013 10:05:48 AM Clinton Stimpson wrote:
> On Monday, March 11, 2013 11:23:31 AM Brad King wrote:
> > On 03/08/2013 02:52 PM, Clinton Stimpson wrote:
> > > Its not as simple as changing the order.
> > > If I have my own build of Qt4, and if FindQt4.cmake had this:
> > > find_program(QT_QMAKE_EXECUTABLE NAMES qmake4 qmake-qt4 qmake-mac qmake
> > > ...) and I try to use my build of Qt
> > > CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=/home/me/qt/qt-4.7.2 cmake ../
> > > It finds /usr/bin/qmake-qt4 instead, because it searched for qmake-qt4
> > > in
> > > all possible paths before searching for qmake.
> > > 
> > > Currently, I think we need to keep "qmake" first.
> > 
> > FYI, you changed it to the current order here:
> >  http://cmake.org/gitweb?p=cmake.git;a=commitdiff;h=61ad5242#patch1
> > 
> > but we used to have qmake last.  I think it may have flip-flopped a
> > few times before that too but I do not remember for sure.
> > 
> > > The proposed patch does improve the situation by making a separate
> > > find_program() call for each executable name.  It also verifies the
> > > results of each find_program().
> > 
> > Is the patch acceptable?  Do you have an alternative?
> > 
> > I'd like this to be worked out ASAP.
> > 
> > We're planning 2.8.11-rc1 later this week.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > -Brad
> 
> The patch is not acceptable.  It breaks FindQt4.cmake on my system.
> I can look into this.

I fixed a few bugs with that patch, and it is now merged with next.

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Clinton Stimpson
Elemental Technologies, Inc
Computational Simulation Software, LLC
www.csimsoft.com