[Qt-creator] Qt Installation Directory Problems

[Daniel Teske]

On Sunday 14 March 2010 08:12:23 ext Victor Sardina wrote:
> Fellows:
> 
> Today I tried to compile the latest Qt sources (master branch).
> Everything appears to work as usual, except that the installer insists
> on placing several executables under Qt-4.6.1/bin instead of
> Qt-4.7.0/bin. This happens even if you pass "-prefix
> /usr/local/Trolltech/Qt-4.7.0" explicitly. This turns annoying simply
> because the operation might have overwritten several executables
> (including the moc et al.) that I had as my working Qt installation
> prior to the latest compilation. I appear to have succeeded in going
> around it by copying all those executables over to the "Qt-4.7.0/bin"
> directory by hand (creation date check reveals them right away).
> 
> This indicates that something needs updating in the configure scripts
> down the chain. That something appears to have slipped through the
> cracks(?).
> 
> Although not strictly related to QtCreator, I believe it turns relevant
> if we consider that we need one of the latest Qt installed in order to
> successfully compile QtCreator itself.
Try to pull qt and reconfigure. There was a bug a few days ago that will result 
in such a behaviour.

daniel