[Nix-dev] Volunteers to package qt 5.1

Lluís Batlle i Rossell viric at viric.name
Sat Oct 12 11:04:41 CEST 2013


On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 12:11:30AM +0200, Lluís Batlle i Rossell wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 12:10:09AM +0200, Bjørn Forsman wrote:
> > Hi Lluís,
> > 
> > On 11 October 2013 21:50, Lluís Batlle i Rossell <viric at viric.name> wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I looked at the qt 4 expression, and I got afraid of trying to package qt 5.1.
> > >
> > > So here comes my request; can someone package it? Maybe someone has the work
> > > almost done somewhere out of master?
> > 
> > A qt5 expression was sent to this list last year:
> > 
> > http://lists.science.uu.nl/pipermail/nix-dev/2012-December/010301.html
> > 
> > A few months back I tested it locally. I think I had to do some minor
> > edits to make it work on master. Or maybe I just did a version bump on
> > it, don't remember. For some reason I cannot seem to find my branch
> > where I did it.
> 
> This is the magic of git. :)
> 
> I'll try to build something with that. Thank you!

That fails straight with 5.1.1:
./configure: line 44: /bin/pwd: No such file or directory

I guess it requires some patching, bells and whistles as the qt4 expression.


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