[solved] Building problems while trying to build Qt 4.7.3 on a machine that has installed Qt 4.4.3

[markus.liebe]

Hi there,

I am trying to build Qt 4.7.3 on a linux machine that comes with a installed Qt 4.4.3.
In the beginning of t he build process qmake reads all the .pro files in source dir and creates the corresponding Makefiles.
Each of the created Makefiles has a line like:

@LIBS = $(SUBLIBS) -L/usr/lib64 -L/home/user/rpmbuild/BUILD/qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.7.3/lib -lQtCore -L/usr/lib64 -lz -lm -pthread -L/opt/gnome/lib64 -lgthread-2.0 -lglib-2.0 -lrt -ldl -lpthread @

The problem is the first occurence of "-L/usr/lib64" which has precedence over "-L/home/user/rpmbuild/BUILD/qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.7.3/lib"
As a consequence the wrong QtCore is used (the Qt 4.4.3 one out of /usr/lib64), which results in a linker error.

In my opinion qmake should not put the /usr/lib64 path in front of the other library path.

Do you have any hints on how to get that right?
Is this a bug in qmake?

Regards,
Markus

[goetz]

This must have been added from somewhere else. I tried a configure run on an older kubuntu box with Qt 4.4.1 libs in /usr/lib64, I do not have that path in the LIBS variable. Maybe it sneaked in by some other dependency which is installed there?

[markus.liebe]

Thanks for the hint Volker.
I had a closer look into the .spec file of the rpm that I am using and behold:
there is a line passing several extra parameters to the configure call:

-- ok now the third try to get that following line into the post. It was parsed away by the forum.

The line contains:
@define common_options -L%libdir@

I changed that line to my needs and the issue is solved now.