phonon: configure errors QMAKESPEC not set

[pixilla (Bradley Giesbrecht)]

Adding "-spec macx-g++" to configure.args appears to fix this.

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

Why open a ticket with a patch for a nomaintainer port?

[pixilla (Bradley Giesbrecht)]

QT related ports take a long time to build and I am not very familiar with QT. I would like someone more familiar with QT to look at my patch. I have emailed the maintainer of qt4-mac asking for a patch review.

To me, this looks like something the QT PortGroup should setup.

[michaelld (Michael Dickens)]

IMHO, if this work, go for it. Adding "-spec macx-g++" just makes the project build specifically for OSX / G++. I do find it odd that the -spec is not determined automatically (or, maybe, using a default), like it usually is by QMake. In the future, if I ever get back around to working on the qt4-x11 port (or, qt4 +x11 someday), we'll need to revisit this addition since it'll require the (IIRC) darwin-g++ spec. But, for now, I think you're safe adding this change.

[pixilla (Bradley Giesbrecht)]

I have a clean MacPorts (no ports installed) with a prefix of /opt/macports-clean.

I have some variants set in variants.conf.

$ grep -E "^[^#]" /opt/macports-clean/etc/macports/variants.conf
+no_startupitem +no_x11 -x11 +quartz

When building the skrooge port I get several failures on dependent ports with this error:

QMAKESPEC has not been set, so configuration cannot be deduced

Some of these ports are:

• phonon
• qca
• strigi (strigi has an undeclared dependency on qmake)

Added qmake "QMAKESPEC" env var to configure.env, build.env, destroot.env and cmake with value "macx-g++" to the qt4 PortGroup (r79057).
Now phonon, qca and strigi (after adding PortGroup qt4 to strigi) install without error.

[michaelld (Michael Dickens)]

Your Qt4 PortGroup change looks OK to me; if it doesn't work, I guarantee you that end-users will start complaining within the next few days :)

[pixilla (Bradley Giesbrecht)]

Fixed r79057