[Development] Missing ARM, MIPS, other mkspecs in qt5

[Simon Hausmann]

On Tuesday, November 29, 2011 11:31:08 PM ext Thiago Macieira wrote:
> On Wednesday, 30 de November de 2011 15.47.00, Rohan McGovern wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > In Qt5, we no longer appear to have any mkspecs for cross-compiling for
> > ARM or MIPS.  They were tied up with qws, so they were removed when
> > qws was removed.
> > 
> > Is it intentional that we still don't have any, or has it just fallen
> > out that way and we're free to add some generic ARM, MIPS mkspecs for
> > testing purposes?
> 
> mkspecs for cross-compilation are ill-suited, because the compiler name
> changes a lot. A better solution would be to make those configure-time
> options and simply use the standard mkspec for the platform.

Yeah, shouldn't it be rather straight-forward to extend the existing support 
for CC/CXX environment variables in configure with say TARGET_CC and 
TARGET_CXX? (dunno if those are good names or not, but I hope you get the idea 
:)


Simon