[Development] -developer-build (was: [5.7-beta] compile error with xcode-6.4

[Mark De Wit]

Having tried to do this myself last week, I cannot find any "official" documentation on how to build Qt myself for an official release with our software.  Doing our own build has proven frustrating enough that we abandoned the current attempt to update our version of Qt.

The configure flags are poorly documented, and options like qtlibinfix (which I understood to be a recommended best practice) isn't even mentioned on the configure flag page. 

Kind regards,
Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: Development [mailto:development-bounces+mark.dewit=iesve.com at qt-project.org] On Behalf Of Thiago Macieira
Sent: 03 May 2016 18:09
To: development at qt-project.org
Subject: Re: [Development] -developer-build (was: [5.7-beta] compile error with xcode-6.4

Em terça-feira, 3 de maio de 2016, às 19:01:30 PDT, Harri Porten escreveu:
> I've seen my Qt users use -developer-build because
> 
>    http://wiki.qt.io/Building_Qt_5_from_Git
> 
> proposes it and the impact not clear to everyone. Qt users naturally 
> consider themselves to be developers

I've seen people on IRC come with those errors and I've asked them to update the wiki page they found the instructions in to remove the -developer-build option. Either they've never done it or the option came back.

> The negative impact I have seen: the lack of a following "make install"
> leads to a different layout of the files on disk. Still, companies are 
> sharing such builds within their team and develop their application 
> against it.

That implies adding a -prefix option to configure.

> If noone minds I'll make the wording more precise.

Thanks, that would be most welcome.

--
Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
  Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center

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