[pkg-wpa-devel] Bug#463547: Bug#463547: FTBFS: uic file generated with too recent version of Qt Designer

[Kel Modderman]

tags 463547 pending
thanks

On Monday 04 February 2008 07:00:16 Joachim Breitner wrote:
> Version: 0.6.2-1
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Am Sonntag, den 03.02.2008, 01:22 +1000 schrieb Kel Modderman:
> > On Friday 01 February 2008 21:58:14 Kel Modderman wrote:
> > > On Friday 01 February 2008 21:11:03 Joachim Breitner wrote:
> > > > Package: wpasupplicant
> > > > Version: 0.6.1~git20071119-1
> > > > Severity: serious
> > > > 
> > > > Hi,
> > > > 
> > > > trying to recompile the package here I get this error:
> > > > 
> > > > /usr/share/qt3/bin/uic wpagui.ui -o .ui/wpagui.h
> > > > uic: File generated with too recent version of Qt Designer (4.0 vs. 3.3.7)
> > > > 
> > > > uic is an alternative, which happens to point to /usr/bin/uic-qt3
> > > > here on my system.
> > > > 
> > > > The build should therefore use uic-qt4.
> > > 
> > > This should be fixed in experimental already.
> > 
> > Did you confirm if it is fixed in experimental yet?
> 
> Oh, sorry, no:
> 
> It seems that when I ran apt-get source, it fetched the version from
> experimental already, so no, the problem was present in that version.

Aha, which is why I totally misunderstood the bug. Also what was missing was
the really informative parts of the error message that were snipped from the
original bug report (the part where qmake-qt3 was used to generate the
Makefile).

> 
> I assume that a package should build independently of
> the /etc/alternatives settings, right?

Yes, we must hardcode the path to the version of qmake required, which
is currently /usr/bin/qmake-qt4.

http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-wpa-devel/2008-February/001493.html

Thanks, Kel.