[Development] Modifying and accessing environment variables in Qt

[Kevin Kofler]

Simon Hausmann wrote:
> Yes, this isn't perfect, because we still include large quantities of code
> in src/3rdparty in Qt that has unprotected calls to getenv(). But then
> that hasn't stopped us from patching that code in the past.

That will not help on distributions using system copies of third-party 
libraries.

        Kevin Kofler