Re: [gentoo-alt] Qt and pkg-config

[Jeremy Olexa]

On Friday, March 8, 2013, Sylvain Chevallier wrote:

> Hi all,
>   I just solve a Qt issue that you may encounter. I use prefix on OS X.
>   I try to compile sci-visualization/gnuplot with the support for Qt
> terminal (USE=qt4) and it failed during linking with the following error:
>
> x86_64-apple-darwin12-g++  -march=nocona -O2 -pipe
> -Wl,-dead_strip_dylibs -Wl,-rpath,/myprefix/gentoo/usr/lib/qt4
> -Wl,-dead_strip_dylibs -lpng15 -o gnuplot alloc.o axis.o binary.o
> breaders.o color.o command.o contour.o datafile.o dynarray.o eval.o fit.o
> gadgets.o getcolor.o graph3d.o graphics.o help.o hidden3d.o history.o
> internal.o interpol.o matrix.o misc.o mouse.o parse.o plot.o plot2d.o
> plot3d.o pm3d.o readline.o save.o scanner.o set.o show.o specfun.o
> standard.o stats.o stdfn.o tables.o tabulate.o term.o time.o unset.o util.o
> util3d.o variable.o version.o  gp_cairo.o gp_cairo_helpers.o  qt_term.o
> qt_term_mac.o -lreadline  -lncurses  -lz -lgd -ljpeg -lz -liconv -ljpeg
> -lfreetype -lpng   QtNetwork QtSvg QtGui -F/myprefix/gentoo/usr/lib/qt4
> -framework QtCore    -laquaterm  -framework Foundation -lz -lpangocairo-1.0
> -lpango-1.0 -lgobject-2.0 -lcairo -lglib-2.0 -lintl   -framework Cocoa
> x86_64-apple-darwin12-g++: QtNetwork : No such file or directory
> x86_64-apple-darwin12-g++: QtSvg : No such file or directory
> x86_64-apple-darwin12-g++: QtGui : No such file or directory
> make[3]: *** [gnuplot] Error 1
>
>   It turns out that pkg-config is responsible, in fact it is
> dev-util/pkgconf, a pkg-config "compatible" replacement that triggers the
> error by misinterpreting the Qt*.pc files. After an emerge -C pkgconf &&
> emerge -1 pkgconfig, everything is back in order.


Thanks for reporting. Did you file a bug report too? That would be more
useful so the pkgconf maintainer can see it too.
Cheers.