[Interest] qt.git: broken v5.6.0 .gitmodules?

[Christian Gagneraud]

On 10 December 2017 at 20:01, Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira at intel.com> wrote:
> On sábado, 9 de dezembro de 2017 22:00:24 PST Christian Gagneraud wrote:
>> > Correct, the branches don't exist anymore. The commits still do.
>>
>> Is it me or this is a serious issue?
>
> It's just you. The commits still exist and that's all that counts.
>
>> I need linux-32 custom build of Qt-5.6.x (and Qt-5.9.x), first Qt-5.6
>> dropped support for linux-32, and now the Qt Company/Project broke
>> branch/tag git build!
>
> Linux 32-bit builds are still supported, even in Qt 5.10. We don't create
> binaries for them because of the small percentage of people who need them, but
> they are supported.
>
> The build is not broken and nor is the tag.

Something is broken for sure.

>From http://wiki.qt.io/Building_Qt_5_from_Git:
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In order to build a specific release of Qt, you can checkout the desired tag:

$ cd qt5
$ git checkout v5.8.0
$ perl init-repository
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This doesn't work anymore.

Chris