[QBS] Default install prefix

Joerg Bornemann joerg.bornemann at theqtcompany.com
Tue May 5 10:58:39 CEST 2015


On 04-May-15 14:54, Joerg Bornemann wrote:

>> I recently installed QBS from sources, and to my (bad) surprise i got it
>> installed in /, instead of the more usual /usr/install (speaking about
>> Linux obviously). The reason for this is that I didn't configure/use any
>> prefix and/or destdir (autoconf semantic). Is it a QBS feature or is it
>> a QBS own source feature?
>
> Ouch! That's a bug in the qmake project files for qbs.
> You can control the install location by setting QBS_INSTALL_PREFIX:
>       qmake QBS_INSTALL_PREFIX=/some/where

This is now fixed for 1.4.1.
The default of QBS_INSTALL_PREFIX is /usr/local.


BR,

Joerg



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