Re: qt5-mac-qtbase-5.7.1-7

On 1/5/20 7:20 PM, Didier Godefroy wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I see there is an issue that I’m not the only one to have faced, when trying to update packages with fink.
> 
> I had not upgraded fink for years and have to re-install it, which I’ve been trying to do, but I’m bumping against this error:
> 
> Can't resolve dependency "xcode.app (>= 5.1.1)" for package "qt5-mac-qtbase-5.7.1-7" (no matching packages/versions found)
> 
> I don’t have qt5 installed, and it won’t install or any other package, as it’s stopping right there every time.
> 
> I’m on high sierra 13.6 and don’t use apfs.
> 
> I noticed some having the issue mentioning apfs, but I haven’t switched to it.
> 
> Just to get more clues, I tried installing qt5 using homebrew and it went fine, so it’s fink having that issue.
> 
> When is there going to be a fix for this? I’m stuck at that point, and certainly broken programs depending on those fink packages, which are all gone right now.
> 
> I’m not on the mailing list for this, so if I need to try something, I need to know via email.

I tested Qt5's dependence on Xcode.app and confirmed it was necessary 
back in Nov 2019. The configure script directly calls xcodebuild, which 
needs a working Xcode.app installation. I don't know what homebrew might 
be doing to make xcode.app not necessary on your system. I've scanned 
their build recipe [1] and it seems close enough to ours. In fact, they 
depend on xcode ("depends_on :xcode => :build") to build Qt5, but I 
don't know enough about their process to guarantee that's not just the CLT.

As Alexander said, edit the file 
/sw/fink/dists/stable/main/finkinfo/libs/qt5-qtbase.info (or copy it to 
/sw/fink/dists/local/main/finkinfo and edit there) to remove the 
xcode.app line (#47) and test the build. The other suggestion is to also 
slowly remove configure options in case one of them is triggering the 
xcodebuild check, but looking through configure, the requirement is 
quite low level, meaning the general build process needs it.

[1] https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formula/qt.rb

Hanspeter


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