[Development] Qt 6 buildsystem support requirements

[Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer]

El jueves, 2 de agosto de 2018 14:36:11 -03 Konstantin Tokarev escribió:
> 02.08.2018, 19:50, "Thiago Macieira" <thiago.macieira at intel.com>:
> > On Thursday, 2 August 2018 07:16:18 PDT Konstantin Tokarev wrote:
> >>  Unfortunately, Debian does not use cross-compilation for building
> >> packages
> > 
> > Which is unfortunately the case for most (if not all) Linux distributions
> > as a significant number of frameworks and applications don't cross
> > compile at all. So they need to compile on target.
> 
> Do you have any prominent examples? I'm working on embedded software for 8
> years, me and my colleagues have dealt with various open source packages,
> we've never needed to resort to compilation on target or qemu environment.

Out of the box Qt. You need to specifically build it to cross compile stuff, 
which is not what distros look for. What distros need is being able to use the 
real-arch binaries to build the target ones.


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