[Development] V8's location

Rohan McGovern rohan.mcgovern at nokia.com
Mon Dec 12 01:30:31 CET 2011


Stephen Kelly said:
> On Wednesday, November 09, 2011 13:54:37 Thiago Macieira wrote:
> > On Friday, 28 de October de 2011 12:38:38 lars.knoll at nokia.com wrote:
> > > We've been moving this lib quite a bit already. If we move it again, I'd
> > > prefer it would end up at it's final location. The move was done before
> > > we had the decision to keep QtCore independent of V8 and to separate
> > > the QJS* classes and the QML engine into it's own module.
> > > 
> > > With the above decision it might make sense to move V8, the QJS* classes
> > > and the QML engine all into the same shared library.
> > > 
> > > Kent & Aaron, any thoughts?
> > 
> > Since they don't seem to have an opinion, can we please move it to top-level
> > inside qt5.git?
> > 
> > I've just caught a bad commit in my tree that updates the commit link to v8
> > and I'm trying to fix it with an interactive rebase.
> 
> Bump. This is a recurring problem with newcomers trying to build qtbase. They 
> don't know to do the git submodule magic or use -no-v8, so the build fails.
> 

I think this can be easily mitigated by having qmake check if the
sources exist, rather than simply assuming that they do.
e.g. http://codereview.qt-project.org/10934 .



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