[Development] Enabling SSE2 by default on x86 builds (32-bit)

[Oswald Buddenhagen]

On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 10:39:04AM -0600, Rex Dieter wrote:
> Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 07:18:55AM -0600, Rex Dieter wrote:
> >> Thiago Macieira wrote:
> >> 
> >> > 3bis) distro builds Qt once with -no-sse2 and then some libs with
> >> > -config sse2
> >> 
> >> How could this be implemented exactly?
> >> 
> >> I know qtbase supports
> >> ./configure -(no-)sse2
> >> 
> >> but how for other modules like qtdeclarative that uses pure qmake?
> >> 
> > they inherit the settings from qtbase (through the mkspecs/q*.pri files).
> 
> So now we'd need to manage >1 set of mkspecs/q*pri files for x86 builds 
> somehow?  This is starting to feel ugly.
> 
yes, it's utterly ugly. i'd keep only the non-sse set once the build is
through (you can't configure the sse version with a different data path,
so there is really no way to avoid the file conflict).
this, of course, makes it basically impossible to make a
module-by-module build. but then, the doc build already precludes that
anyway.

when thiago's proposal is properly approved, we can start thinking how
to integrate this properly upstream ...