qtbase successes on Mac

[Michael Lawrence]

Hi guys,

Are you guys still able to build the latest qtbase checkout on the Mac? The Bioc guys are having trouble.

Thanks,
Michael

[Hadley Wickham]

On a clean checkout, I get:

...
-- Build Smoke... yes - Qt
CMake Error: The following variables are used in this project, but
they are set to NOTFOUND.
Please set them or make sure they are set and tested correctly in the
CMake files:
QT_QTUITOOLS_INCLUDE_DIR (ADVANCED)
used as include directory in directory
/tmp/RtmpVaJff3/R.INSTALL197dd8ec/qtbase/kdebindings
used as include directory in directory
/tmp/RtmpVaJff3/R.INSTALL197dd8ec/qtbase/kdebindings/generator
used as include directory in directory
/tmp/RtmpVaJff3/R.INSTALL197dd8ec/qtbase/kdebindings/generator/parser
used as include directory in directory
/tmp/RtmpVaJff3/R.INSTALL197dd8ec/qtbase/kdebindings/generator/generators
used as include directory in directory
/tmp/RtmpVaJff3/R.INSTALL197dd8ec/qtbase/kdebindings/generator/generators/smoke
used as include directory in directory
/tmp/RtmpVaJff3/R.INSTALL197dd8ec/qtbase/kdebindings/generator/generators/dump
used as include directory in directory
/tmp/RtmpVaJff3/R.INSTALL197dd8ec/qtbase/kdebindings/smoke
used as include directory in directory
/tmp/RtmpVaJff3/R.INSTALL197dd8ec/qtbase/kdebindings/smoke/qt

-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `install'. Stop.
make: *** [all] Error 2
ERROR: compilation failed for package ‘qtbase’
* removing ‘/Users/hadley/R/qtbase’
* restoring previous ‘/Users/hadley/R/qtbase’

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[Michael Lawrence]

It looks like the Mac builds do not include support for the QtUiTools module. Strange. What's also strange is that on Linux, cmake does not care if you are missing a module. As far as I understand cmake, this means that we cannot support QtUiTools anywhere, which is unfortunate.

Michael

[Deborah Swayne]

Is this a question of the Qt installation?  Hadley, did you install yours using brew or directly from nokia.com?

I want to be careful not to break anything on my laptop between now and the JSM!

Debby

[Deborah Swayne]

qtbase builds just fine for me.  I got Qt from qt.nokia.com; I haven't updated it using the June 21st release.

Debby

[Hadley Wickham]

Have you updated the qtbase source?
Hadley

[Deborah Swayne]

Yes, just now.

[Dianne Cook]

Michael,

I just did a fresh install of everything on by backup Mac, and had no problems. Everything works beautifully. 

cheers,

Di

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Di Cook

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[Michael Lawrence]

I wonder if Hadley just needs to update then? It seems that at least in the past, the QtUiTools module was missing from Nokia's build. I've managed to make that conditional on a branch I'm pushing to Bioc's svn.

The only remaining problem is that they are building through ssh into the Mac, and Qt is failing to initialize due to not having the rights to the WindowsServer (Mac's rough analog to the X11 server). This causes the vignette build to fail. Unfortunately, their entire build system runs as a background user. For GTK+ stuff they've been able to run an X11 server, but apparently the native WindowsServer is more difficult to access. The only feasible way forward may be to disable the vignette build on the Mac, but this will require a modification to their build system.

Michael