[Development] QMake behaviour change

Oswald Buddenhagen oswald.buddenhagen at digia.com
Wed Nov 28 13:36:51 CET 2012


On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 01:17:58PM +0100, 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.
> 
the original bug report was the result of a rather convoluted debugging
session on irc, with it turning out that the wrong files were picked up
because of exactly this misfeature.



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