[Development] Bootstrapping QDoc

[Oswald Buddenhagen]

On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 11:30:42PM +0800, Sze Howe Koh wrote:
> Not too long ago, I was able to compile Qt's HTML documentation by
> simply running 'configure' followed by 'make html_docs'.
> 
i find that hard to believe, because configure never built qdoc.

> That's not the case anymore -- calling 'make html_docs' after
> 'configure' led to an attempt to run qdoc.exe, which did not yet
> exist. I'm guessing it's because QDoc is no longer bootstrapped
> (https://codereview.qt-project.org/#change,52739). The patch mentioned
> making bootstrapping "optional" -- does that mean I can re-enable it?
> If so, how?
> 
you can run "../bin/qmake -r -config force_bootstrap" in qtbase/src/
after configuring. but that still needs to be followed by "make sub-qdoc".