[Bug 358088] [NEW] QT install has wrong internal environment variables

[budge]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: qt4-qmake

I can't build QT4 project Makefiles with qmake due to internal
weirdness.  I use the default install locations, and install via
synaptic.  Here are some examples of the kind of brokenness I'm
encountering:

I initially get errors regarding QMAKESPEC, and when I try to set the
QMAKESPEC and build, I get something like

>QT_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr qmake -spec linux-g++
Could not find mkspecs for your QMAKESPEC(linux-g++) after trying:
	/usr/bin/mkspecs

> qmake -query QT_INSTALL_PREFIX   
/usr/bin

> qmake -query QT_INSTALL_BINS     
/usr/bin/bin

some Qt variables can be set via qmake -set VARIABLE, but these two (at
least) appear to be hard-coded.  It looks like the install directory on
the original system was /usr/bin, whose value is hard coded into the
binary.  Then the package is distributed such that the files live in the
correct places, but the hard-coded variables now can't find them.  Just
a guess as I'm no Qt expert.

I'm running the Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04 Beta release.  The Qt version is
4.5.0 and qmake is 2.01a.

I believe that the value for QT_INSTALL_PREFIX should be /usr for this
Qt distribution, and I believe that QMAKESPEC should point to one of the
directories in /usr/share/qt4/mkspecs.  Although I've noted qt4-qmake as
the problem, I'm not at all sure that this will not extend to other qt4
packages.

** Affects: qt4-x11 (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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QT install has wrong internal environment variables
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