[Development] Qt5 combined source package - Perl dependency

Oswald Buddenhagen oswald.buddenhagen at digia.com
Tue Apr 30 18:30:08 CEST 2013


On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 08:59:47AM -0700, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> On terça-feira, 30 de abril de 2013 17.24.29, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> > > Can we do it somehow less magically? Isn't there a way to do it if it
> > > needs to be done, and not do it if it doesn't need to be done?
> > 
> > no, because latest on the second in-source build it would not be
> > necessary any more, thus messing up the expectations of those who want a
> > rebuild.
> 
> I'm seriously wondering why configure.exe needs to be rebuilt if none of the 
> sources have changed. Can't we simply adapt the Makefile?
> 
that would mean shipping a complete build dir including object files.
also, the semantics get really funky for shadows builds (read-only
source dir).

> For the include dir, it's a little harder to determine, especially since this 
> will also affect rules inside .prf files in mkspecs. Any chance we can simply 
> try and run syncqt, but ignore errors?
>
talking about "less magically", huh?




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