Mac installation issue with .profile

[jcr]

Hello,
I am pretty new with the mac, so the question might be dumb.. but here it goes.
I have successfully installed qt 4.1.4.
I found the .profile file using the terminal in /Users/<yourUsername>/
and the .profile file now contains:

# Your previous .profile  (if any) is saved as .profile.dpsaved
# Setting the path for DarwinPorts.
export PATH=/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:$PATH
PATH=/usr/local/Trolltech/Qt-4.1.4/bin:$PATH
export PATH

# Your previous .profile  (if any) is saved as .profile.dpsaved
# Setting the path for DarwinPorts.
export PATH=/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:$PATH
PATH=/usr/local/Trolltech/Qt-4.1.4/bin:$PATH
export PATH

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when I type qmake in the terminal, I am getting:
-bash: qmake: command not found
when I go to the directory /usr/local/Trolltech/Qt-4.1.4/bin and I type qmake there same answer... I must be missing something obvious

Thanks helping me out.

[jacek]

I'm not a Mac user (unfortunately), but did you install precompiled Qt or just its sources?

[jcr]

I downloaded from qtcenter.org front page and did:
./configure
make
sudo make install

[jacek]

What files do you have in /usr/local/Trolltech/Qt-4.1.4/bin?

[jcr]

cd /usr/local/Trolltech/Qt-4.1.4/bin
ls -al
returns:
drwxr-xr-x 16 root wheel 544 Jul 10 00:58 .
drwxr-xr-x 13 root wheel 442 Jul 10 00:58 ..
drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Jul 10 00:57 Designer.app
drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Jul 10 00:56 Linguist.app
drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Jul 10 00:56 assistant.app
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 130976 Jul 10 00:56 lrelease
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 189880 Jul 10 00:56 lupdate
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 723252 Jul 10 00:55 moc
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 109396 Jul 10 00:56 qm2ts
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 9909656 Jul 10 00:58 qmake
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 1144708 Jul 10 00:56 qt3to4
drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Jul 10 00:57 qtconfig.app
drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Jul 10 00:57 qtdemo.app
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 1081604 Jul 10 00:55 rcc
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 1565712 Jul 10 00:55 uic
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 891296 Jul 10 00:56 uic3

thanks for your help!

[jacek]

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 9909656 Jul 10 00:58 qmake

What happens when you run:

cd /usr/local/Trolltech/Qt-4.1.4/bin
./qmake -help

cd /usr/local/Trolltech/Qt-4.1.4/bin
./qmake -help

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?

[jcr]

qmake -help returns
-bash: qmake: command not found
but
./qmake -help returns
Usage: ./qmake [mode] [options] [files]
QMake has two modes, one mode for generating project files based on
some heuristics, ...

the './' is pretty useful

Now, I have this folder with a finance.pro file and
qmake finance.pro from that folder returns
-bash: qmake: command not found
but
./qmake /ventures/finance/finance.pro from the qt bin folder
works fine (actually it fails but for good reason since I have to make a few changes to the .pro file)

So the problem is probably with the .profile file...
Thanks!

[jacek]

So the problem is probably with the .profile file...

AFAIR .profile is read when bash starts, so you will have to either open another terminal or re-login to see the changes.

[jcr]

I restarted bash Terminal, logget out and no improvement
I rewrote the .profile as
export PATH=/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/usr/local/Trolltech/Qt-4.1.4/bin:$P$
I logged out
but no luck yet

[jacek]

I rewrote the .profile as
export PATH=/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/usr/local/Trolltech/Qt-4.1.4/bin:$P$
I logged out but no luck yet

What happens when you run:

echo $PATH

echo $PATH

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and

export PATH="/usr/local/Trolltech/Qt-4.1.4/bin:$PATH"
qmake -help

export PATH="/usr/local/Trolltech/Qt-4.1.4/bin:$PATH"
qmake -help

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?

[jcr]

Jacek
Thanks you very much.

echo $PATH returns
/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/usr/local/Trolltech/Qt-4.1.4/bin:$
and
qmake -path
works!!!

(by the way, I must have done something wrong because command like ls or nano do not work any more)... It is getting messy.