Joachim,
I ran into this as well some time ago and worked around it by adding
modextravars = {
'QT_XKB_CONFIG_ROOT': '/usr/share/X11/xkb',
}
to my Qt5 easyconfig. But this obviously isn't a "real" solution. So
if someone has a better idea...
Markus
On 08/24/2017 04:06 PM, Joachim Hein wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We are trying to deploy qt5 in various foss toolchains and are
> experiencing issues with the xkb library.
>
> The users report errors like (X11 20160819 in foss 2016b):
>
> xkbcommon: ERROR: failed to add default include path
> /sw/easybuild/software/MPI/GCC/5.4.0-2.26/OpenMPI/1.10.3/X11/20160819/share/X11/xkb
> Qt: Failed to create XKB context!
> Use QT_XKB_CONFIG_ROOT environmental variable to provide an additional
> search path, add ':' as separator to provide several search paths and/or
> make sure that XKB configuration data directory contains recent enough
> contents, to update please see
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xkeyboard-config/ .
>
> It is our current understanding the the directory
> /sw/easybuild/software/MPI/GCC/5.4.0-2.26/OpenMPI/1.10.3/X11/20160819/share/X11/xkb
> should look similar to
>
> -bash-4.2$ ls -l /opt/thinlinc/share/X11/xkb
> total 28
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 3 2016 compat
> drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Oct 3 2016 geometry
> drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Oct 3 2016 keycodes
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 3 2016 rules
> drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 4096 Oct 3 2016 symbols
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 3 2016 types
>
> but we are completely lacking a xkb directory:
>
> [root@aurora1 ~]# ls
> /sw/easybuild/software/MPI/GCC/5.4.0-2.26/OpenMPI/1.10.3/X11/20160819/share/X11/
> locale Xcms.txt XErrorDB
>
> I went back to the old log file of the X11 (I build that in december)
> and found it has stuff like:
>
> == 2016-12-16 18:15:33,725 easyconfig.py:1205 WARNING Unable to resolve
> template value libxkbcommon-%(version)s with dict {'versionprefix': '',
> 'versionsuffix': '', '\
> toolchain_name': 'foss', 'toolchain_version': '2016b'}
> == 2016-12-16 18:15:33,725 easyconfig.py:1205 WARNING Unable to resolve
> template value %(name)s-%(version)s.tar.gz with dict {'versionprefix':
> '', 'versionsuffix': ''\
> , 'toolchain_name': 'foss', 'toolchain_version': '2016b'}
>
>
> I checked the logs of a newer X11, which I build with EB 3.3.1 and that
> has similar. Not sure this is the cause of the issue, but it might be a
> starter.
>
> Any comments/hints/requests_for_more_info?
>
> Thanks
> Joachim
>
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