[Interest] About Qt 4.8.3 MinGW

[R. Reucher]

On Monday 17 September 2012 11:28:07 Salovaara Akseli wrote:
> Qt 4.8.3 MinGW package is partially broken as we notified in the mailing
> lists. We will provide a new installer to fix these issues (work in
> progress).
Could you also post links to the source changes when it's done?

I'm able to build Qt 4.8.3 cleanly with MinGW (32- and 64-bit), however, as I 
already stated in the "Qt 4.8.3 / MinGW: JavaScriptCore doesn't compile" 
thread, qmake isn't working properly for my projects. Now I tried the official 
MinGW Qt 4.8.3 binary package, and it apparently has the same qmake issue...

This is the package I tried:
http://releases.qt-project.org/qt4/source/qt-win-opensource-4.8.3-mingw.exe

Also, can someone confirm that we are seeing the same issue(s)?

To clarify what's wrong from my perspective, I quote myself:

"... it seems that qmake from this build doesn't work properly as it exposes 
empty values for QT_VERSION (and QT_MAJOR_VERSION, QT_MINOR_VERSION etc.), but 
others like CONFIG or QT for example have valid values... that's weird to say 
the least ;)!

[...]

I should add that "qmake -query QT_VERSION" returns the string "4.8.3" 
correctly, but it's empty when qmake processes a .pro file (i.e. in makefile-
mode)."

Cheers, René