[Development] V8's location

[Oswald Buddenhagen]

On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 01:45:27PM -0200, ext Thiago Macieira wrote:
> Configure already sets a "default" mkspec symlink that matches the target 
> mkspec. Making it also create a symlink for "default-host" which matches the 
> host platform would be easy.
> 
> The tricky part is using that.
> 
> You could specify the -spec default-host option when running configure, but 
> last I checked with Marius (or was it still Sam?), you can't add that to the 
> .pro file because it's too late. The spec file was already loaded by the time 
> the .pro file is parsed. So my guess is this would be a major incursion into 
> qmake to support the feature.
> 
correct.

> It would probably be easier, though uglier, to add a separate file that is read 
> by qmake when it finds the .pro file.
> 
well, technically, there is no reason why that separate file could not
be the .pro file itself:

#pragma spec:default-host
TARGET=lrelease
...

pure beauty! :D