[Development] bug: qmake ignores CMAKE_CC and CMAKE_CXX while building Qt 5.3.2???

[Thiago Macieira]

On Monday 23 March 2015 16:00:06 René J.V. Bertin wrote:
> >Which part of a Qt build? The build of:
> > - qmake
> > - a host library or of libQtBootstrap.a
> > - a target library
> 
> What's that distinction between a host and a target library?

The compiler it uses. They're different if you're cross-compiling.

> In a nutshell, I'm building Qt, everything except for QtWebEngine. I unpack
> the qt-everywhere tarball, remove the qtwebengine directory, run configure
> and then gmake. The compilers used in the gmake step is what has been
> causing me problems.

Ok. What is the target that was being built? The very first thing? That would 
be libQtBootstrap.a.

> >Also, since you're on OS X, why does the build think you're
> >cross-compiling? Did you pass different -platform and -xplatform switches?
> >Or am I mis- interpreting the situation?
> 
> I didn't say the build thinks I'm cross-compiling, nor that I use
> -xplatform. I did mention cross-compiling, but in the sense of doing a
> build for 32bit on a 64bit system. You probably know that with clang that
> is almost the same as cross-compiling: a matter of a few additional
> commandline arguments.

Right. If you pass just -platform macx-clang-32, it's not consider cross-
compiling. It builds host and target for that.

If you pass -xplatform, then it's cross-compiling.

> >> *) 1 probable bug: one of the geoclue files does `value = new GValue;
> >> *value = GVALUE_INIT;`. Apparently that passes Apple's clang and gcc,
> >> despite the>
> >It's valid C++11, though it's not valid C++98.
> 
> That's what I figured; I'm less sure why there's C++11 code when the
> corresponding configure option hasn't been given. C++11 support is
> problematic on 10.6 and really only (partly) possible using an FSF gcc
> compiler. Which won't support a range of Apple-specific commandline options
> (even though some are available under a different name).

It's a bug and it probably was never caught because no one compiled on a Mac 
without C++11 support.

We will probably not start doing that...
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Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
  Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center