[Development] Qt5 "QMAKESPEC has not been set"

Thiago Macieira thiago.macieira at intel.com
Mon Nov 7 15:15:09 CET 2011


On Monday, 7 de November de 2011 14:56:57 Johannes Zellner wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have problems building Qt5 these days, when trying to set a different
> prefix other than described in the README "$PWD/qtbase"
> qtbase builds fine, but any other module/add-on wont build due to:
> "QMAKESPEC has not been set, so configuration cannot be deduced."
> 
> The issue is that a "make install" is not issued for qtbase at this
> time. (somehow the "$PWD/qtbase" seems to always work)
> In any case should we change the qt5 project file, to not build other
> modules than qtbase if you do
> ./configure && make ?
> Or at least change the README to give a hint.
> 
> Am I the only one getting into this issue?

No. Make install isn't being tested and is known not to work right now. But it 
should work in the future -- I think.

For now, do not set the prefix to anything different than $PWD/qtbase.

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