[Development] Relocating a Qt compilation

[Thiago Macieira]

On Thursday, 28 June 2018 07:44:41 PDT Eric Lemanisser wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm currently working on a Qt package for conan, and the fact that qt files
> have absolute path hard-coded in them is problematic. The use case is the
> following : a user downloads a binary distribution of Qt
> (qmake+moc+include+libs etc.), which is then stored in a directory which
> cannot be known when compiling said distribution.
> MaintenanceTool does the exact same job of downloading existing binaries
> and storing them in directory chosen by the user, so it has to patch the
> files. Are MaintenceTool's sources available, or at least the patching
> process ? There used to be a small tool (qpatch? qtpatch?) doing that, but
> I cannot find it

For a single-use build, you don't need to do that. Everything that needs to be 
found at runtime which would use those hardcoded paths can also be overridden 
by environment variables (XDG_CONFIG_DIRS, QT_PLUGIN_PATH and 
QML2_IMPORT_PATH).

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