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

[Mojca Miklavec]

On 23 November 2017 at 06:38, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> On Nov 22, 2017, at 21:36, Ian Wadham 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?
>
> qmake and other qt programs and files moved so that the qt4-mac and qt5 ports could be installed simultaneously.

I just want to say that there's still room for improvement and it
would be nice if at least QMake would automatically find both. This
should be possible.

Of course one cannot have both copies for qmake (for version 4 and 5)
in path under that name at the same time, but the CMake's Find modules
have distinct names for example.

Mojca