[Development] ../../bin/mkv8snapshot: No such file or directory

[kai.koehne at nokia.com]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: development-bounces+kai.koehne=nokia.com at qt-project.org
> [mailto:development-bounces+kai.koehne=nokia.com at qt-project.org] On
> Behalf Of ext Dave Mateer
> Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2011 2:30 PM
> To: development at qt-project.org
> Subject: Re: [Development] ../../bin/mkv8snapshot: No such file or directory
> 
> Thank you for this information. I had actually tried that but was still having
> the problem. The "secret sauce" for me was to add the
> -no-v8 option to my configuration. Then I got past that problem. (I'm still
> dealing with others at this point, but I think we're slowly making progress!)


Could very well be that the other bugs you're mentioning are actually a result of -no-v8, since this isn't something most people will pass to configure :( I'd rather find out what goes wrong for you in the first place.

v8 is somewhat specific in that
  * it is a git submodule of qtbase
  * it requires python to build

You should therefore check whether you've python in the path (I don't know whether this is actually checked by configure), and that your git submodule is up to date. So, please run 'git status' inside qtbase and check that nothing shows up, specifically no 'src\3rdparty\v8'. 

Finally, just re-running configure sometimes doesn't fix everything ... the safest thing to do is 'git clean -fxd; git submodule foreach git clean -fxd', but I can understand that this really hurts for people without a powerful build farm :(  You can mitigate this though by just compiling the modules you're interested in. If you e.g. are only interested in qtdeclarative, only compile qtbase and qtxmlpatterns. No need to spend precious time on e.g. webkit :)

Hope this helps

Kai
> On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 2:29 AM,  <kai.koehne at nokia.com> wrote:
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: development-bounces+kai.koehne=nokia.com at qt-project.org
> >> [mailto:development-bounces+kai.koehne=nokia.com at qt-project.org]
> On
> >> Behalf Of ext Robin Burchell
> >> Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2011 7:32 AM
> >> To: Dave Mateer
> >> Cc: development at qt-project.org
> >> Subject: Re: [Development] ../../bin/mkv8snapshot: No such file or
> >> directory
> >>
> >> hi,
> >>
> >> On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 8:59 PM, Dave Mateer
> >> <davemateerwork at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > I configured using:
> >> >
> >> >    ./configure -developer-build -prefix "." -debug -nomake examples
> >> > -nomake tests -no-webkit
> >>
> >> i've not built on OS X for ages, but that -prefix looks possibly wrong to me.
> >> qt5/README[1] says:
> >>
> >> ./configure -prefix $PWD/qtbase -opensource -confirm-license
> >>
> >> (obviously, -developer-build etc you might want to tack onto that)
> >>
> >> Where is this page? I guess it probably needs updating.
> >
> > I guess it was http://developer.qt.nokia.com/wiki/Building_Qt_5_from_Git
> . My fault, I just recently changed the configure line in there to not use -
> nokia-developer. The behavior of "-prefix '.'" of course depends on the
> current working directory, so it makes a difference if you run configure inside
> qtbase, or in the parent directory. Anyway, -developer-build is all that is
> needed, I changed the wiki accordingly ...
> >
> >> [1]: https://qt.gitorious.org/qt/qt5/blobs/master/README
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