[Qt-interest] Moving Qt 4.6 Source folder

[K. Frank]

Hello Garth -

I think your best bet is to rebuild Qt.

On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 10:48 AM, Garth Dahlstrom <ironstorm at gmail.com> wrote:
> I know configure/MinGW make hard code drive letters and paths into the makefiles.
>
> Does anyone know if its possible to relocate the Qt source folder without rerunning configure and rebuilding the entire tree?   Is there a command that would do this?  If not has anyone had success doing a shell script that does a regex replace and touch of all the makefiles under cygwin or something like that?

To clarify:  You say "source folder."  Do you want to move your entire
Qt installation,
or just take the "src" directory (parallel to bin, doc, lib, etc...)
out of your Qt
installation?

If you want to move your entire Qt installation, I think you are
basically out of
luck.  Doing so is highly impractical.  (File that under "nothing is
impossible.")

I wanted to do the same, looked into, played around trying various things, and
then gave up, and rebuilt Qt.  The biggest sticking point was that qmake (an
executable program) has absolute paths hardcoded into it, and trying to concoct
some scheme to edit the qmake executable seemed dicey, and way more
trouble than it would have been worth.

The command "qmake -query" will show you qmake's hardcoded paths.

As to whether "src" can be moved by itself,  I don't see any direct references
to "src" in "qmake -query," but several of the Qt header files reference
header files in "src" with relative paths, so it doesn't look to promising.
(Even if you could move "src," I'm not sure what you'd gain, and you would
be setting yourself up for potential confusion in the future.)

This is a known issue -- I found some stuff in the archives when I was
looking into -- and I think rebuilding is the most practical way to go.

> I'd like to move my source tree from E: drive to C: drive ...

Good luck.

K. Frank

> Thanks in advance,
>
> -G