Setting QT_SELECT globally via debian-qt-kde.mk v3

[Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer]

On Tuesday 10 November 2015 01:07:06 Rohan Garg wrote:
> > I'm not entirely sure this is a good idea (yes, I changed my mind since
> > this morning). As far as I understand all the KF5 packages are using
> > CMake. If so they don't require this variable.
> 
> Could you perhaps elaborate why you think it's not a good idea?

Sure thing. It's not a good idea to add variables that are really not needed 
(in case they are not, of course). The reason is that the environment gets 
muddier without good reasons.

> > Is there anything I'm missing here?
> 
> Right, I think I forgot to mention before that we're using
> KDE_USE_QT_SYS_PATHS in the packaging scripts which makes triggers a
> call which essentially looks for qmake, and in some cases, the qmake
> symlink points to a non existent Qt4 qmake which causes
> dh_auto_configure to fail.

Ah, it uses qmake to know where the Qt plugins are possibly (ie, qmake -
query)? In that case yes, it is a good idea to set it up.

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Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
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