[Development] [Interest] About Qt 4.8.3 MinGW

[R. Reucher]

Thanks, Lukas! I'll try that...

On Tuesday 25 September 2012 07:59:16 Lukas Geyer wrote:
> Am 24.09.2012 13:16, schrieb R. Reucher:
> > Also, can someone confirm that we are seeing the same issue(s)?
> 
> Yes, I can. 4.8.3 is broken and cannot be used to compile projects
> relying on information from mkspecs/qconfig.pri, for example QtCreator.
> 
> > To clarify what's wrong from my perspective, I quote myself:
> > 
> > "... it seems that qmake from this build doesn't work properly as it
> > exposes empty values for QT_VERSION (and QT_MAJOR_VERSION,
> > QT_MINOR_VERSION etc.), but others like CONFIG or QT for example have
> > valid values... that's weird to say the least ;)!
> > 
> > [...]
> > 
> > I should add that "qmake -query QT_VERSION" returns the string "4.8.3"
> > correctly, but it's empty when qmake processes a .pro file (i.e. in
> > makefile- mode)."
> 
> The problem is that mkspecs/qconfig.pri (which contains the definitions
> for QT_VERSION and alike) is not included due to a broken path for
> qconfig.pri in mkspecs/features/qt_config.pri, caused by an invalid
> QT_BUILD_TREE path set in mkspecs/features/device_config.pri.
> 
> This has been fixed in [1], but the fix is not part of v4.8.3.
> 
> The fix can be manually applied to an existing installation by patching
> mkspecs/features/device_config.pri as seen in [2], but as long as this
> change won't be in v4.8.3, 4.8.3 remains broken.
> 
> 
> regards,
> Lukas
> 
> [1] https://codereview.qt-project.org/34507
> [2]
> https://codereview.qt-project.org/#patch,sidebyside,34507,1,mkspecs/feature
> s/device_config.prf