{"id":291,"date":"2009-03-04T12:30:14","date_gmt":"2009-03-04T03:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clearchain.com\/blog\/?p=291"},"modified":"2009-03-04T12:30:14","modified_gmt":"2009-03-04T03:00:14","slug":"solving-the-qt4-freebsd-install-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clearchain.com\/blog\/posts\/solving-the-qt4-freebsd-install-problem","title":{"rendered":"Solving the qt4 FreeBSD install problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I&#8217;ve been trying to instal Trolltech&#8217;s Qt 4 toolkit on my FreeBSD 7.0 server. \u00a0FreeBSD supports qt4 via ports (qt4-gui, qt4-moc, qmake4, etc), hence I&#8217;ve been using the ports system to try and install it. However it kept failing with the error:<\/p>\n<pre>===&gt;  Configuring for qt4-rcc-4.4.3\r\n\/bin\/cp \/data\/usr\/ports\/devel\/qt4-rcc\/..\/..\/devel\/qt4\/files\/configure \/data\/usr\/ports\/devel\/qt4-rcc\/work\/qt-x11-opensource-src-4.4.3\/src\/tools\/rcc\/..\/..\/..\/\r\n\/usr\/bin\/sed -i.bak -e 's|target.path.*|target.path=\/usr\/local\/bin|g'  \/data\/usr\/ports\/devel\/qt4-rcc\/work\/qt-x11-opensource-src-4.4.3\/src\/tools\/rcc\/rcc.pro\r\n\/bin\/mkdir -p \/data\/usr\/ports\/devel\/qt4-rcc\/work\/qt-x11-opensource-src-4.4.3\/src\/tools\/rcc\/..\/..\/..\/mkspecs\r\n\/bin\/ln -sf \/usr\/local\/bin\/qmake-qt4 \/data\/usr\/ports\/devel\/qt4-rcc\/work\/qt-x11-opensource-src-4.4.3\/src\/tools\/rcc\/..\/..\/..\/bin\/qmake\r\n\r\nThis is the Qt\/X11 Open Source Edition.\r\n\r\n   The specified system\/compiler is not supported:\r\n\r\n      \/data\/usr\/ports\/devel\/qt4-rcc\/work\/qt-x11-opensource-src-4.4.3\/mkspecs\/freebsd-g++\r\n\r\n   Please see the README file for a complete list.\r\n\r\n===&gt;  Script \"configure\" failed unexpectedly.\r\nPlease report the problem to kde@FreeBSD.org [maintainer] and attach the\r\n\"\/data\/usr\/ports\/devel\/qt4-rcc\/work\/qt-x11-opensource-src-4.4.3\/src\/tools\/rcc\/..\/..\/..\/\/config.log\"\r\nincluding the output of the failure of your make command. Also, it might be\r\na good idea to provide an overview of all packages installed on your system\r\n(e.g. an `ls \/var\/db\/pkg`).\r\n*** Error code 1<\/pre>\n<p>After some brief Google searching, I found the issue. It turns out that a long time ago I had been using qt4 with another project I had been working on. With this project I&#8217;d defined:<\/p>\n<pre>setenv QMAKESPEC freebsd-g++\r\nsetenv QTDIR \/usr\/X11R6\/<\/pre>\n<p>This was causing the build system to break. The post at: \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mail.kde.org\/pipermail\/kde-freebsd\/2008-August\/003360.html\">http:\/\/mail.kde.org\/pipermail\/kde-freebsd\/2008-August\/003360.html<\/a>\u00a0gave the hint about this.<\/p>\n<p>Once I undefined QMAKESPEC everything worked as expected!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I&#8217;ve been trying to instal Trolltech&#8217;s Qt 4 toolkit on my FreeBSD 7.0 server. \u00a0FreeBSD supports qt4 via ports (qt4-gui, qt4-moc, qmake4, etc), hence I&#8217;ve been using the ports system to try and install it. 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