[Development] Qt 5.5.0 build issue on OS X (10.9): OpenGL libraries

[Oswald Buddenhagen]

On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 04:19:52PM +0200, René J.V. Bertin wrote:
> On Friday September 11 2015 14:17:23 René J.V. Bertin wrote:
> 
> > How can I find out why QMAKE_LIBS_OPENGL gets set to -lGL in qmodule.pri, or why the library is tested in opengldesktop.pro?
> 
> Answer 1: by sinking teeth where I'd rather not sink them
> Answer 2: configure shouldn't use pkg-config when building for the Cocoa QPA, i.o.w, 
> 
> if [ "$QT_QPA_DEFAULT_PLATFORM" = "cocoa" ] || [ "$QT_QPA_DEFAULT_PLATFORM" = "" -a "$XPLATFORM_MAC" = "yes" ] then compileTest should be used. I cannot see any reason to justify using pkg-config to find the OpenGL frameworks, just as it's obvious that it should be used to find the GLX library when building the XCB plugin.
> 
> Should I file a bug report or is this enough?
> 
there are some related reports already.

but what you really should do, is contribute a patch. ;)