[Development] QCONFIG_FLAGS vs defines

[Thiago Macieira]

On Friday 05 December 2014 18:29:02 Jeremy Lainé wrote:
> I see some other defines are added by like this:
> 
> QMakeVar add DEFINES QT_NO_MTDEV
> 
> ..which results in this -DQT_NO_MTDEV being passed directly to the compiler
> (which works for iOS too). Is this what I should be doing instead?

Please don't do that. That results in this flag getting passed to EVERY SINGLE 
file, including Qt modules that have nothing to do with mtdev. I could be 
wrong, but I think it also gets passed to user applications.

And you know how some OS have limitations on command-line length. It's 
preferable to have a shorter line so we can actually read the command-line to 
reproduce issues.

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