What happened to qt4-mac's qmake utility (re High Sierra v. Lion)?

[Nicolas Pavillon]

Hi, 

I don’t think the change in prefix is platform dependent. This happened quite some time ago to allow co-installation of both qt5 and qt4-mac (see https://trac.macports.org/changeset/140960). As far as ports are concerned, their compilation should have been fixed also quite some time ago.
If you need to find specific qt4 components in your own codes, I imagine that setting QTDIR should be enough (just a wild guess), which
is now set to ${prefix}/libexec/qt4.

Cheers,

Nicolas

> On Nov23, 2017, at 12:36, Ian Wadham <iandw.au at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I have been setting up a new MacBook Pro 13-inch with High Sierra.
> Macports is building and running fine with qt4-mac, kdegames4 and kmymoney4
> requested and a long list of dependencies installed.
> 
> Now I am trying to resurrect some of the KDE 4 source-code and applications
> I used to work on when I was a KDE developer. I brought across a bunch of source
> from my old MacBook Pro (2011 vintage and using Lion). But when I went to build
> it CMake failed during its checks of the software and hardware environment, which
> it does before starting to generate a makefile and build.
> 
> Specifically, CMake could not find qmake, Qt’s utility for generating builds. Using
> “port contents” I found that qt4-mac @4.8.7_5 has qmake installed at /opt/local/bin
> on Lion, but on High Sierra it is at /opt/local/libexec/qt4/bin, which is not in my $PATH.
> 
> So why has qmake moved?
> 
> And what should I add to my $PATH, /opt/local/libexec/qt4/bin? Or would /opt/local/libexec
> be enough (and more general)? Or perhaps CMake needs some option?
> 
> All the best, Ian W.
>