[Development] Installing Qt5Config.cmake from the Qt repo?

[Stephen Kelly]

On Wednesday, November 02, 2011 12:33:02 Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:

> what exactly is it that you need cmake itself for?

* Generating Targets files, including not haviing to care about what the prefix 
or suffix on libraries is, and without doing a bad reimplementation of a 
generator for them as I have currently done. 
* The ability to install something like CreateBasicQtConfig.cmake which can 
then be found by a the cmake executable to create the QtWebkitConfig.cmake 
which is not in qtbase. Currently I'd have to either install the 
create_basic_cmake_config_files.sh or duplicate it. Can qmake solve that 
problem?
* Less for me to maintain.

Others on this list have already made clear that they will block dependence on 
the cmake executable, so let's just move on and see how we can do the best 
without it.

> 
> you don't need sed. use QMAKE_SUBSTITUTES (see creator sources for
> "documentation"). in fact, the shell scripts look easy enough that you
> could rewrite them in qmake entirely.

Possibly. I'm not familiar enough with the existing Qt buildsystem to know 
where to look or where to put stuff. If you give me pointers or even a patch to 
start with I can do the rest.

What would implementing it in QMake instead of shell script get us? Does qmake 
know anything that shell scripts do not?

Thanks,

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