[Releasing] Testing and verification of Alpha package

[Rohan McGovern]

marius.storm-olsen at nokia.com said:
> Hi guys,
> 
> We are closing in on the alpha release, and it's time for maintainers and others willing to help out to download and verify that the package contents is good and ready for the release.
> 
>     http://releases.qt-project.org/alpha/20120314/qt-everywhere-opensource-src-5.0.0.tar.gz (219MB)
> or
>     http://releases.qt-project.org/alpha/20120314/qt-everywhere-opensource-src-5.0.0.zip (255MB)
> 
> Please report back on this public mailing list any and all problems you find with the package, and maintainers please focus your efforts on the component you are responsible for, and validate that it works as intended on the primary target platforms.
> 
> Note that this release primarily targets
> 
>   *   Linux/XCB
>   *   Windows 7 (MSVC 2008/2010, MinGW)
>   *   OSX (10.6, 10.7)
> 
> Thanks!
> 

On Ubuntu 10.04 32-bit:

After a successful build and install, compiled examples under
examples/declarative don't work, they seem to look for their QML files
from the build tree (and an incorrect location in the build tree):

  [rmcgover at bq-menoetius qt-everywhere-opensource-src-5.0.0]$ /opt/local/qt/5.0.0-alpha/examples/declarative/calculator/calculator                                           
  No platform plugin argument was specified, defaulting to "xcb".
  QIBusPlatformInputContext: not connected.
  QMaliitPlatformInputContext: not connected.
  NOTE: The runtime property and the Orientation enum are only available through qmlviewer and are not available in the complied version.
   Run 'qmlviewer calculator.qmlproject' or load 'calculator.qmlproject' in Qt Creator and run the project. 
  file:///home/rmcgover/build/qt/qt-everywhere-opensource-src-5.0.0/qml/calculator/calculator.qml: File not found 

...and a blank widget is displayed.

Running the same examples with qmlviewer works nicely.

I can't get examples under examples/qtdeclarative/qtquick to work at all.
The first problem is similar to the above, but they segfault rather than
show a blank widget:

  [rmcgover at bq-menoetius qt-everywhere-opensource-src-5.0.0]$ /opt/local/qt/5.0.0-alpha/examples/qtdeclarative/qtquick/animation/animation                                   
  No platform plugin argument was specified, defaulting to "xcb".
  QIBusPlatformInputContext: not connected.
  QMaliitPlatformInputContext: not connected.
  file:///home/rmcgover/build/qt/qt-everywhere-opensource-src-5.0.0/animation.qml: File not found 
  QQuickCanvas: makeCurrent() failed...
  QOpenGLFunctions created with non-current context 
  zsh: segmentation fault  /opt/local/qt/5.0.0-alpha/examples/qtdeclarative/qtquick/animation/animation

If I run the .qml files with qmlscene, I get exactly the same behavior
except the "File not found" line is not printed.