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bug #41133: Build system fails to process -F framework paths for Qt (Homebrew)

Submitted by:  Michael C. Grant <mcgrant>
Submitted on:  Tue 07 Jan 2014 02:12:48 PM UTC  
 
Category: Configuration and Build SystemSeverity: 3 - Normal
Priority: 5 - NormalItem Group: Build Failure
Status: DuplicateAssigned to: None
Originator Name: Michael C. GrantOpen/Closed: Closed
Release: 3.8.0Operating System: Mac OS

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Thu 27 Mar 2014 11:32:58 AM UTC, comment #2:

Yes, I believe we can close this one now. I have addressed this one with another bug report/patch (can't remember which).

Michael C. Grant <mcgrant>
Thu 27 Mar 2014 05:13:51 AM UTC, comment #1:

Is this bug obsolete? It sounds identical to bug #41236 which is now marked as fixed. Is there something different in this report that is still not addressed?

Mike Miller <mtmiller>
Project Administrator
Tue 07 Jan 2014 02:12:48 PM UTC, original submission:

When attempting to build Octave with the GUI enabled using Homebrew, the build fails for two reasons:
1) Qt is packaged as a framework, not a set of shared libraries.
2) the framework is installed in /usr/local/Cellar/qt/4.8.5, not in the system framework locations.

A simple patch to configure.ac, supplied here, can solve this first problem. If you examine it, you'll see that it modifies the use of PKG-CONFIG on darwin*) platforms so that it can grab not just the -L and -l linker arguments, but the -F and -framework arguments as well, for QT_LDFLAGS and QT_LIBS. I strove to design this patch so that it leaves non-Mac platforms unaffected altogether, and still works for cases where Qt is made available using libraries instead of frameworks.

However, this still fails, because libtool does not process -F properly, which is necessary to address the second problem. I manually patched the libtool that is generated by the configure script, and that patch is also included here. However, because libtool is generated by configure, I do not know if it is possible for this patch to be applied to the source at all.

I do understand that, in theory, Homebrew can just apply these patches during the compilation process. I wanted to offer them here however in case you might wish to ensure that this scenario can succeed without Homebrew.

Michael C. Grant <mcgrant>

 

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file #30208:  configure.ac.diff added by mcgrant (1012B - application/octet-stream)
file #30209:  libtool.diff added by mcgrant (2KiB - application/octet-stream)

 

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    Date Changed By Updated Field Previous Value => Replaced By
    Thu 27 Mar 2014 12:55:50 PM UTCmtmillerStatusNeed Info=>Duplicate
      Open/ClosedOpen=>Closed
      Dependencies-=>Depends on bugs #41236
    Thu 27 Mar 2014 05:13:51 AM UTCmtmillerStatusNone=>Need Info
    Tue 07 Jan 2014 02:12:48 PM UTCmcgrantAttached File-=>Added configure.ac.diff, #30208
      Attached File-=>Added libtool.diff, #30209

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