[Interest] Weird "qmake" behaviour

Yves Bailly yves.bailly at sescoi.fr
Thu Nov 24 10:08:59 CET 2011


Le 24/11/2011 09:36, Yves Bailly a écrit :
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> The weird thing is that when generating the "project.vcxproj" file (for
> use within Visual C++), "qmake" includes a link to "some_lib_cool2.lib",
> *NOT* to "some_lib_cool.lib" as requested in the "project.pro" file...

Sorry for the noise, actually it's a documented behaviour. It's happening
only on Windows, and it was not happening with Qt3...

Nevertheless, can't this be seen as a bug? isn't it a bit too far from
the good http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_least_astonishment ?

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