[Development] bug: qmake ignores mkspec while building inside Qt source tree (trying to do 32bit build on 64bit host)

[Thiago Macieira]

On Monday 23 March 2015 22:03:13 René J.V. Bertin wrote:
> - the reason the compiler settings from the mkspec are ignored is because
> qmodule.pri contains QMAKE_CC and QMAKE_CXX definitions. I don't know why
> those variables get set in there; are they taken from the CC and CXX env.
> variables (that are set by the MacPort environment in which my build takes
> place)?

Yes.

That was removed for Qt 5.4.0 because, as you can see, it doesn't work. I 
added it for Qt 4.2, one of my first few contributions and not my cleanest 
code....

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