[Development] QMake behaviour change

[Johan Thelin]

On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 1:30 PM, Daniel Teske <daniel.teske at digia.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday 28 Nov 2012 13:17:58 Johan Thelin wrote:
>> On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 11:24 AM, Daniel Teske <daniel.teske at digia.com>
> wrote:
>> >> - Means that source code where headers and sources are split into
>> >> different directories all of a sudden depends on relative paths to all
>> >> files
>> >
>> > See VPATH, which Ossi already mentioned in the bug report.
>>
>> yup, will do. I'm just questioning what the change brings, apart from
>> breakage. Are there any direct benefits, more than cleaning up
>> something that has been around since the dark ages.
>
> All I point out that your claim that I quoted is false.

Ok, agreed :-)

>> >> - Behaves differently from QtCreator (tested with a rather old version
>> >> 2.5.2).
>> >
>> > What exactly did you test? That Creator can find the headers? That's not
>> > testing anything of relevenace to the qmake behaviour.
>>
>> It finds the headers, but qmake does not, so the project looks ok. And
>> yes, I know that 2.5.2 is old :-)
> That is not testing anything of relevance to the change in qmake behaviour.

Nope, but I guess that a common interpretation of pro-files between
qmake and QtCreator are of interest to most.

/J