[Development] V8's location

[Kent Hansen]

Den 03. jan. 2012 22:07, skrev ext lars.knoll at nokia.com:
> On 1/3/12 5:45 PM, "ext Oswald Buddenhagen"<oswald.buddenhagen at nokia.com>
> wrote:
>
>> 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
> Yes, something like this would be great. Can we please get it?
>
> We could even require this to be in the first line of the pro file to make
> things simple. The default would obviously use the target mkspec, so we'd
> only need to patch a few pro files.
>
> Cheers,
> Lars

I created https://bugreports.qt.nokia.com/browse/QTBUG-23447
and made it a blocker for the move of v8.

Regards,
Kent