[Development] Moving build-time tools into qtbase.git.

[Olivier Goffart]

On Thursday 01 December 2011 01:16:53 Stephen Kelly wrote:
> On Wednesday, November 30, 2011 11:01:32 Thiago Macieira wrote:
> > On Wednesday, 30 de November de 2011 19.01.53, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> > > > For now I'm interested in floating the general idea of putting
> > > > build-time- tools into qtbase.git instead of qttools.git.
> > > 
> > > Sounds reasonable IMO.
> > 
> > Agreed.
> > 
> > HarryF has done some work for the Fremantle port of Qt to make
> > qdbusxxx2xxx be bootstrapped. I don't know, however, if lupdate and
> > lrelease can be or have been bootstrapped. They should be, if possible,
> > so they are built with the host compiler, not the target one when
> > cross-compiling.
> 
> I think I'm missing something here.
> 
> Is this a blocker to moving them into qtbase.git? Can the bootstrapping
> happen even after moving them?

It is not a blocker.

AFAIK, bootstraping allow to run the tool on the host (when crosscompiling)
that is required since you need to generate your .cpp on the host so they can 
be compiled on the host