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

[Stephen Kelly]

On Thursday, December 01, 2011 01:58:31 you wrote:
> 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

Yes, I understand the need to have the tools compiled for the host 
architecture when cross compiling, but I don't understand why that was brought 
up in the context of moving the source code for the tools to a different repo.

It is probably just unrelated.

Thanks,

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