Question regarding qt5-mac

[Marcus Calhoun-Lopez]

I am afraid I know very little about either KDE or the Continuous Integration System.
As for Qt5, freetype, glib2, icu, pcre, libiconv, were added as dependencies because Qt5 supports them.

Support for freetype, glib, icu, and iconv can be disabled (-no-freetype, -no-glib, -no-icu, and -no-iconv respectively to the configure script).
Support for pcre can not be disabled.
The best you can do is have Qt us its own bundled version (-qt-pcre to the configure script).

Because these features are recommended by the configure script, they are included in qt5-mac.
All of these ports should be installed automatically	if you install qt5-mac.
Disabling support for them would require modification of the qt5-mac Portfile.

If you “do not enable freetype” by uninstalling freetype by force, you could run into all sorts of problems because Qt assumes it is installed.
If you “do not enable freetype” by not installing it, then qt5-mac should install it automatically for you.
If you “do not enable freetype” by modifying the Portfile to disable support, I am afraid I do not know what will happen.
I have never tested it.
Presumably, Qt supports the possibility since there is a way to do it (the aforementioned -no-freetype configure script option).

Please forgive me if I am not answering your question.
I am a little unclear as to what the exact nature of the problem.

-Marcus

On Jul 6, 2014, at 6:16 AM, Marko Käning <mk-macports at techno.ms> wrote:

> Hi guys,
> 
> I wanted to ask some questions regarding qt5-mac’s dependencies:
> ---
> $ port deps qt5-mac
> Full Name: qt5-mac @5.3.1_0
> Build Dependencies:   pkgconfig
> Library Dependencies: zlib, libpng, jpeg, freetype, dbus, openssl, tiff, libmng, glib2, icu, pcre, libiconv
> ---
> 
> 
> 
> When setting up Qt5 on our KDE/CI system I had to install these ports to actually get Qt5 to build [1]:
> ---
> sudo port install zlib openssl dbus jpeg tiff libmng libpng mysql55 pkgconfig sqlite2
> ---
> 
> Obviously our list of dependencies isn’t identical.
> 
> 
> Turns out that you’ve installed also these ports:
> ---
> freetype glib2 icu pcre libiconv
> ---
> whereas I was forced during the configuration/installation procedure to also install these two
> ---
> mysql55 sqlite2
> ---
> I understand that you intentionally disabled the SQL stuff in order to allow the MacPorts user to add only the needed qt5-mac-*-plugins.
> 
> 
> 
> So the question is now, why you decided to also install the above 5 additional ports.
> If I check whether those are present on the CI system I get
> ---
> $ port installed freetype glib2 icu pcre libiconv
> The following ports are currently installed:
>  glib2 @2.40.0_1 (active)
>  icu @53.1_0 (active)
>  libiconv @1.14_0 (active)
>  pcre @8.35_0 (active)
> ---
> and I realise that they have come in as dependencies to other ports necessary for the CI system (e.g. bazaar, wget...).
> Did you indeed need the above four ports to be able to build Qt5? (In that case I was lucky that they were already installed on my end.) 
> 
> 
> 
> Last but not least, which problems will I run into with Qt5 if I do not enable freetype?
> 
> 
> Greets,
> Marko
> 
> 
> 
> [1] https://trac.macports.org/wiki/KDEProblems/KDEMacPortsCI/Status