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

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Wednesday 02 November 2011, Stephen Kelly wrote:
> 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.

Can you get that information from qmake maybe ?

> * 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?

I guess it'd probably be useful when building on Windows, where you don't have 
a shell.

Alex