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bug#43446: Qt Apps cant make use of qtwayland due to QT_PLUGIN_PATH '= w
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Ricardo Wurmus |
Subject: |
bug#43446: Qt Apps cant make use of qtwayland due to QT_PLUGIN_PATH '= wrapping |
Date: |
Sun, 04 Oct 2020 14:43:08 +0200 |
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Brendan Tildesley <mail@brendan.scot> writes:
> qt-build-system wraps variables such as QT_PLUGIN_PATH with '=
> instead of prefix, so when qtwayland is installed in a profile or
> included in the environment, the application fails to see it. Programs
> run with export QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland-egl will fail to launch.
>
> We could:
>
> 1. Use 'prefix so that the parent environment's variables are appended
> and users have to manually install qtwayland them selves.
> 2. Include qtwayland as an input to every qt package somehow. Can the
> build system do that? Considering that Wayland seems to be the
> future, I feel that Qt GUI applications should support it by
> default. I mean, wayland is in the closure of qtbase anyway.
> 3. Both? Why is '= used anyway?
I can’t say why the Qt build system does this, but in other cases we
know that 'prefix causes problems because the application may end up
loading incompatible binaries leading to a crash. That’s especially the
case on foreign distros, e.g. when the Guix-installed graphical
application loads a plugin from the system’s XDG_* directories.
--
Ricardo
- bug#43446: Qt Apps cant make use of qtwayland due to QT_PLUGIN_PATH '= wrapping,
Ricardo Wurmus <=