[Development] qmake bug 17533

[Oswald Buddenhagen]

On Mon, Feb 09, 2015 at 01:34:55PM +0100, Bo Thorsen wrote:
> I have been working on trying to fix 
> https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-17533.
> 
> The fix itself is really simple: [...]
> 
riiiiiight ...

> Does anyone here know this code?
>
no

> It feels like an area where there could be dragons buried.
>
they aren't buried. they have already surrounded you and will have you
for dinner if you don't run really fast.

> So before I spend a lot of quality time with my debugger, trying to
> fix the new problem. The question I have right now is if it makes
> sense to write a more detailed and precise parser of C/C++ strings in
> the dependency generator.
> 
it may be that i replace that code wholesale in the next weeks. code
already exists (since five years ...), but it wasn't developed in a very
cooperative way, and nobody bothered upstreaming it into qmake so far.