[Development] configure failure on Mac

[Sorvig Morten]

On Oct 3, 2013, at 3:10 AM, Glen Mabey <gmabey at swri.org>
 wrote:

> 
> I'm on the dev branch but experienced this issue before the 5.2 and 5.3 branches split.
> 
> macbookpro:qtbase$ ./configure -prefix ~/src/take2/install
> 
> <snip>
> 
> Running configuration tests...
> The test for linking against libxcb and support libraries failed!
> You might need to install dependency packages, or pass -qt-xcb.
> See src/plugins/platforms/xcb/README.
> 
> 
> Which seems to me like it's performing X11 checks on the wrong platform.
> 
> I can file a bug if I'm really not missing something obvious …


Do you happen to have xcb and/or pkgconfig installed via Macports? I can reproduce the build error in that case. 

A quick workaround is to configure with "-no-pkg-config". This should arguably be the default when building for OS X:

https://codereview.qt-project.org/#change,67213

Morten