[Interest] Frustrated, Why doesn't Qt ever compile?

[Jason H]

> Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2016 at 12:04 AM
> From: "Thiago Macieira" <thiago.macieira at intel.com>
> To: interest at qt-project.org
> Subject: Re: [Interest] Frustrated, Why doesn't Qt ever compile?
>
> Em quarta-feira, 21 de dezembro de 2016, às 19:33:36 BRST, Jason H escreveu:
> > When I compile Qt, it is a harrowing experience. I've _never_ actually had a
> > compile go as planned, which "as planned" is: configure && make && make
> > install (with configure options of course). I don't think it's me. I
> > thought that with all the gerrit review, sanity bots, COIN, that these
> > problems would be a thing of the past? I'm trying to understand why/how
> > it's so hard to compile Qt?
> 
> It's been working like that for me for at least 10 years, so I guess something 
> is wrong on your side.


Could be, but I've been compiling Qt for about 12 years now, and I've *never* had it "just work". I used to be on Windows, but these days I'm on OSX compiling for iOS, Android, and OSX using Xcode.  I can accept uses issues that Apple introduces by updates to xcode after the code is written. But the majority of these problems are not that.

If there's a failure, is not on my side. I follow the directions. If the directions are too hard, then the process should be automated, potentially with some kind of ncurses based linux-kernel config program.