[Qt-interest] QT configure script -- asking for licensing information?

[kent williams]

Thanks all -- for the record, (and anyone searching the mailing list
archive) that works, but it isn't documented in the configure script,
and furthermore the script is written so that it's not immediately
clear what flags are available.


On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc at arcor.de> wrote:
> On 03/01/2010 10:05 PM, Pavel Heimlich, a.k.a. hajma wrote:
>> 2010/3/1 kent williams<nkwmailinglists at gmail.com>:
>>> This has been driving me nuts.  We use a buildscript for our
>>> applications that really is a 'one size fits all supported platforms'
>>> script.  It is written in tcl -- which is the only requirement on any
>>> platform to do a build.
>>>
>>> It will download the source for all prerequisite packages, build them,
>>> and then build our applications.
>>>
>>> It has been really successful for us up to now, but adding Qt to the
>>> list of packages that will get built and installed is causing me
>>> problems, for one simple reason:
>>> Qt demands that its configure script be run interactively to choose
>>> and accept the license.
>>>  [...]
>>
>> Hi,
>> please find below a snippet from our spec file, not sure if the
>> 'confirm-license' is still available option.
>> As a last resort, you could always just patch the configure scripts.
>
> Gentoo is passing the "-confirm-license -opensource" options to
> configure in its build scripts and it seems to work; it never asks to
> confirm the license.
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