Package: qtbase5-dev User: helm...@debian.org Usertags: rebootstrap Control: affects -1 + src:qbittorrent
qbittorrent has a unique way of failing cross compilation and you can see it at m4/qbittorrent.m4: It extracts the $host_bins variable from Qt5Core.pc (the host arch one) and expects "$host_bins/qmake" to work. I think that's a reasonable expectation and a good way to make building against a relocatable qmake work. It just happens, that "$host_bins" currently points at /usr/lib/qt5/bin and thus you get the wrong qmake. Dmitry said that we fix this with two little changes: 1. Change Qt5Core.pc to point $host_bins at /usr/lib/<triplet>/qt5/bin. That was the original value of the variable, but it was moved to /usr/lib/qt5/bin in order to make qt5-qmake-bin Multi-Arch: foreign. The original location now is a symlink farm and still existent. 2. Change /usr/lib/<triplet>/qt5/bin/qmake to point at /usr/bin/<gnutriplet>-qmake. It presently points at /usr/lib/qt5/bin/qmake. After doing both, qbittorrent will look up $host_bins as /usr/lib/<triplet>/qt5/bin and then use /usr/lib/<triplet>/qt5/bin/qmake, which points to /usr/bin/<gnutriplet>-qmake, which does the right thing. Helmut
