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

[Ian Wadham]

> On 23 Nov 2017, at 4:38 pm, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
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> On Nov 22, 2017, at 21:36, Ian Wadham wrote:
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>> 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?
> 
> qmake and other qt programs and files moved so that the qt4-mac and qt5 ports could be installed simultaneously. Ports using qt are meant to use the various qt portgroups, which set variables that the port can use to access the locations of those files. If you're trying to build your own software outside of MacPorts but using MacPorts qt, I guess you'll have to put the right path into your $PATH. The right path is the one that contains the binary you want to use. I don't know if modifying the $PATH is enough for cmake to be able to find things.

Good answer. Thanks, Ryan. Putting Qt’s libexec on the $PATH does placate CMake and the build then proceeds normally.
Cheers, Ian W.