[mythtv-commits] Ticket #12661: mythtv fails to build against anything that's not x86/amd64/armhf

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#12661: mythtv fails to build against anything that's not x86/amd64/armhf
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     Reporter:  superm1@…             |      Owner:
         Type:  Bug Report - General  |     Status:  new
     Priority:  minor                 |  Milestone:  unknown
    Component:  MythTV - General      |    Version:  Unspecified
     Severity:  medium                |   Keywords:
Ticket locked:  0                     |
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 configure has a hard time finding qt5.  Ubuntu guys had dug into what was
 going on in configure.  Snippet of conversation:

 {{{
 12:36:46 <xnox> cjwatson, superm1 - ok found it. Mythtv plugins are funky
 and did tricks behind our back with iterating:
 12:36:47 <xnox> if [ x"$qmake" = "xqmake" ]; then
 12:36:47 <xnox>     CHECK_QMAKE="qmake-qt5 /usr/lib64/qt5/bin/qmake
 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/bin/qmake /usr/lib/i386-linux-
 gnu/qt5/bin/qmake /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/qt5/bin/qmake
 /usr/local/lib/qt5/bin/qmake $\
 12:36:47 <xnox> qmake qmake-qt4"
 12:36:54 <xnox> in case of "qmake" default qmake specified.
 12:37:10 <xnox> and thus it "worked" on x86_64, i386, armhf only =)
 12:37:21 <xnox> exporting QT_SELECT=5 would have been a better trick.
 12:37:34 <xnox> or like querying the triplet from gcc.
 12:38:02 <xnox> Mirv, our qt is fine, it's mythtv which is funny.
 }}}

 So the ask would be to explicitly export:
 {{{
 QT_SELECT=5
 }}}
 when running the build for configure to properly find qt5 without looking
 around all the various paths for every architecture known to man.

 We can of course override this at packaging level too, but this should
 really work properly in the configure script.

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Ticket URL: <https://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/12661>
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