[SOLVED] qtcreator: examples are missing

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This seems to be a common question - but I could not find a satisfying answer yet. The only other topic on this here seems to be Qt5 examples, but the advice given to 'untar the respective tarball' is not satisfactory - it is the job of the ebuild to untar tarballs for me.

Here is the problem: qt creator (qtcreator, from package dev-qt/qt-creator-4.6.2) lacks examples - the examples drop-down box offers no entries. The following USE flags are enabled:

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android clangcodemodel clangstaticanalyzer cmake cvs designer doc git glsl mercurial modeling python qbs scxml subversion valgrind webengine

I thought the doc USE flag would install examples, but it only installs two .qch files under /usr/share/doc/qtcreator.

So the question is: do I miss something so that the examples do get installed through the ebuild, or is manual installation the preferred way? A manual installation would mean either a) get the Qt installer and reinstall all somewhere in /opt - which would introduce 'duplicates' in non-standard directories, or b) inspect all my 24 tarballs in the list of

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ls /usr/portage/distfiles/qt*-5.*

for an 'examples' directory, extract it and include them all somewhere where they can be found by qtcreator - not very user friendly.

[fedeliallalinea]

https://bugs.gentoo.org/568838

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@fedeliallalinea

Thank you very much for the pointer! I missed that one...

The solution I chose is this:

Solution

Following the above bug link, one reaches a further bug (actually, an enhancement):

https://bugs.gentoo.org/669268

Get the ebuild from the attachment there:

https://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=552234

Save the ebuild in a local overlay, under, say

/usr/local/portage/overlays/<overlay-name>/dev-qt/qt-examples

as

qt-examples-5.11.1.ebuild

Run

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ebuild qt-examples-5.11.1.ebuild digest
egencache --update --repo='<overlay-name>'
eix-update

emerge -av dev-qt/qt-examples

Voilà! All Qt5 examples are there! Enjoy!