qt4-mac-devel deletes /dev/null

[ryandesign@…]

Attempting to install qt4-mac-devel @4.6.0-rc1 causes the /dev/null device to be deleted, which is obviously extremely bad. This occurs at some point during configure, the rest of which then doesn't function, and the build fails right away. Immense log attached.

[ryandesign@…]

I suspect this line in the configure script:

    "$TEST_COMPILER" "$@" -o /dev/null conftest.cpp

Changing that to

    "$TEST_COMPILER" "$@" -o dummy conftest.cpp

should fix it but I haven't tested yet.

[emanuel@…]

patch-configure.diff

[emanuel@…]

I run into the same /dev/null problem with qt4-mac-devel@4.6.0-rc1 and @4.6.0. I attached a patch file for configure which works for me on Mac OS 10.5. Can anybody confirm it?

[emanuel@…]

Cc Me!

[ryandesign@…]

Thanks, committed in r61129.

[ryandesign@…]

I have  reported this problem to the developers of Qt.

[ryandesign@…]

Upstream fixed the problem using our patch as part of  this commit.