[Development] [Interest] About Qt 4.8.3 MinGW

[R. Reucher]

Yep, worked perfectly!

Thanks again, René

On Tuesday 25 September 2012 08:45:02 R. Reucher wrote:
> 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/featu
> > re s/device_config.prf