[Development] buildsystem branches (about to be) integrated

[Stephen Chu]

On 6/19/12 8:31 AM, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> moin,
>
> the buildsystem branch of qtbase is currently being integrated. this is
> ~120 commits worth of qmake & project file fixes and cleanups. there are
> some changes to how modularization (in particular configure tests) is
> handled, and cross-building should be supported without hacks finally.
>
> the immediate impact:
> - lots of build scripts which employ various hacks will instantly
>    break. don't panic and (mostly) just delete some code from them.
>    use
>        configure -xplatform <spec> -sysroot <root>
>        make
>    as you would intuitively expect. don't play tricks with funny qmake
>    and make invocations.
> - the other modules will spit out lots of warnings now.
>    *DON'T* do anything about them for now. i have patches prepared for
>    all modules already. i will explicitly add the module owners to the
>    reviews. *don't* stage anything yourself.
>    once my patches are through, there will be still some warnings left.
>    you'll be invited to fix them at this point.
> - some build configurations will work even worse than before until
>    everything is integrated. the only variants which are expected to be
>    safe are developer builds without -prefix and module-by-module builds
>    with -prefix.
>
> catch me on IRC if something breaks for you and no obvious solution
> seems to help. but remember that not every breakage is due to this
> branch being integrated. ;)

Is this buildsystem branch the one we get when we just clone qt5 clean? 
By that I mean if I go through the steps documented here: 
http://qt-project.org/wiki/Building-Qt-5-from-Git is that the same as 
this branch.

The reason I ask is I just cloned qt5 from gitorious and saw a lot of 
updates. I am wonder if this will fix the broken build issue on Mac OS X.