If you build with LOCALBASE != /usr/local, devel/qt5-core (and probably other qt ports) fails to configure: . . Using system PCRE2 ..................... no . . Project ERROR: Library 'pcre2' is not defined. *** Error code 3 Stop. make: stopped in /usr/ports/devel/qt5-core If you change the references in <LOCALBASE>/lib/qt5/mkspecs/freebsd-clang/qmake.conf that contain the hard-coded /usr/local to the value of the non-default LOCALBASE, then the configure is able to find pcre2. For example: --- mkspecs/freebsd-clang/qmake.conf.orig 2018-06-19 23:00:56.000000000 -0600 +++ mkspecs/freebsd-clang/qmake.conf @@ -8,8 +8,8 @@ include(../common/bsd/bsd.conf) # Addon software goes into /usr/local on FreeBSD, by default we will look there -QMAKE_INCDIR_POST = /usr/local/include -QMAKE_LIBDIR_POST = /usr/local/lib +QMAKE_INCDIR_POST = /opt/pcre2/include +QMAKE_LIBDIR_POST = /opt/pcre2/lib QMAKE_LFLAGS_NOUNDEF = -Wl,--no-undefined I'm sure that's not the only way to address the problem. Note that that qmake.conf file is owned by the devel/qt5-qmake port, of course, not devel/qt5-core.
I didn't mean to include 'pcre2' in the path in the patch in the previous comment. --- mkspecs/freebsd-clang/qmake.conf.orig 2018-06-19 23:00:56.000000000 -0600 +++ mkspecs/freebsd-clang/qmake.conf @@ -8,8 +8,8 @@ include(../common/bsd/bsd.conf) # Addon software goes into /usr/local on FreeBSD, by default we will look there -QMAKE_INCDIR_POST = /usr/local/include -QMAKE_LIBDIR_POST = /usr/local/lib +QMAKE_INCDIR_POST = /opt/include +QMAKE_LIBDIR_POST = /opt/lib QMAKE_LFLAGS_NOUNDEF = -Wl,--no-undefined
Hi John What's the status of this now, is it still failing? mfg Tobias
Yes, it still fails the same way.
A commit references this bug: Author: tcberner Date: Sat Apr 6 15:21:42 UTC 2019 New revision: 498144 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/498144 Log: devel/qt5-qmake: override hardocded value of localbase with ${LOCALBASE} - The qmake.conf shipped with Qt5 sets /usr/local by default. This patch replaces that string with the value of ${LOCALBASE} to ease use with different prefixes. PR: 229260 Changes: head/Mk/Uses/qt-dist.mk head/devel/qt5/files/extrapatch-mkspecs_freebsd-clang_qmake.conf
I don't quite get how you even get to try building Qt5 with non standard prefix as quite a few of the dependencies already do not support it. However, Qt5 is now patched to sed in the value of ${LOCALBASE} when building qt-base. This hopefully should get you further.