Control: tags -1 + patch Control: affects -1 + qpdfview On Thu, Feb 15, 2024 at 01:55:53AM +0000, Maarten van der Schrieck wrote: > Cross building with qmake6 fails due to QT_HOST_LIBEXECS having a wrong > value. For completeness: QT_HOST_LIBEXECS refers to the config file > variable HostLibraryExecutables, and is internally referred to as > QMakeLibraryInfo::HostLibraryExecutablesPath and > QMakeLibraryInfo::LibraryPathQMakeExtras::HostLibraryExecutablesPath in > the qmake source code. > > The issue is that HostLibraryExecutables defaults to the *default* value > of LibraryExecutables. LibraryExecutables is set to the right value (a > concatenation of Prefix + LibraryExecutables with the value > "/usr/lib/qt6/libexec"), but its default value is Prefix + "libexec". > > As the cross build config /usr/lib/<multiarch>/qt6/qt6.conf specifies > Prefix as "/usr", the default of LibraryExecutables, and hence the > default of HostLibraryExecutables, is now "/usr/libexec", which is the > wrong value. > > The simple fix is to supply the value of HostLibraryExecutables in > /usr/lib/<multiarch>/qt6/qt6.conf explicitly: > > ... > HostLibraryExecutables=lib/qt6/libexec > ...
Thank you so much for locating the fix and taking the time to explain it in so much detail. I ran into this problem with qpdfview again and confirm that what you propose here makes it just work. Helmut
