Am Donnerstag, 7. Juli 2016 um 09:31:30, schrieb Enrico Forestieri 
<for...@lyx.org>
> On Wed, Jul 06, 2016 at 11:25:02PM +0200, Kornel Benko wrote:
> > Am Mittwoch, 6. Juli 2016 um 21:52:42, schrieb Enrico Forestieri 
> > <for...@lyx.org>
> > > Rather, there is now another problem with Qt5. Until now it was not
> > > mandatory having the Qt5 binaries in the PATH. Indeed, specifying
> > > --with-qt-dir sufficed for finding them. For example, on solaris I
> > > have everything in /opt/qt5 but /opt/qt5/bin is not in the PATH.
> > 
> > This is the same for cmake build. For QT4 we had our own FindQT4.cmake, but 
> > QT5
> > comes together also with cmake config files. Here the PATH is important, 
> > because
> > it serves as a reference to find these config files.
> 
> Note that I am already telling the software where qt5 is through
> --with-qt-dir=/opt/qt5, and it finds the proper libraries and
> binaries. However, it then drops the path and tries to use
> the first one found in PATH, thus causing problems. This is a
> regression that breaks building scripts for no good reason.
> Not everything in the world is linux and even less ubuntu.
> 

I was describing the situation in cmake. Cannot comment on automake.

        Kornel

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