[Development] Qt5PlatformSupport, PKGCONFIG and QMAKE_PRL_LIBS

[Oswald Buddenhagen]

On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 11:23:38AM +0200, Tomasz Olszak wrote:
> My libQt5PlatformSupport.prl has empty QMAKE_PRL_LIBS

> (it was removed in packaging process in *.spec file).
>
ehm, whose packaging process? this is clearly totally bogus.

> Because Qt5PlatformsSupport.pc was available, I added PKGCONFIG +=
> Qt5PlatformSupport to wayland_common_shared.pri. Unfortunately flags
> from Libs.private were not taken into account so I ended up with
> undefined symbols from libQt5PlatformSupport.a (glib, fontconfig and
> so on).
> 
that sounds like it may be a valid issue. please check jira and create a
report if there is none yet.

> I would like to also ask if adding CONFIG += no_lflags_merge is reasonable
> or ugly workaround in such  case?
> 
well, it's reasonable if it works for you and does not cause bad side
effects. of course it's still ugly. ;)