[Qgis-developer] Building QGIS in Mac OS X (Mountain Lion i.e. 10.8) with QtSQL support

[Larry Shaffer]

Noli,

On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 7:49 PM, Noli Sicad <nsicad at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Larry,
>
>> Yes CMake is necessary. qmake is used to query where Qt components are
>> installed. See results of:
>>
>> qmake -query
>
> I downloaded cmake-2.8.8-Darwin64-universal.dmg from
>
> http://www.cmake.org/cmake/resources/software.html
>
> and installed it.
>
> Command line is installed in  /usr/bin  <-------(default install)
>
> The installer asked me where to install the command line (default is /usr/bin).
>
> I hope this OK.

Yes, that's OK, but as a general rule, you want to avoid installing
non-essential software in /usr/bin; instead use /usr/local/  or  /opt
for installs needing to be available to all users. When you install
software from source it usually has a 'prefix' of /usr/local that will
be used. For example, when installing cmake from source, I end up
with:

[larrys]$ which cmake
/usr/local/bin/cmake

Again, I'm available on #qgis channel on irc.freenode.net most of
today, if you want more help (nickname of 'dakcarto'). Step-by-step
questions, like you are asking, are better suited for that
communication platform. (Plus, you might get quicker answers :^)

Larry

>
> Thanks.
>
> Noli