[Interest] QWE: ${build.dir}/src/toolchain/BUILD.gn not being created at first configure run

[Michal Klocek]

Hi

Well it is a bug not reported before in use of qmake recursive call.

qmake -r

Please just try wihout -r

or apply

https://codereview.qt-project.org/215222

Br

Michal



On 12/21/2017 04:35 PM, René J. V. Bertin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Building QWE 5.9.3 on Linux I run into an issue that others have also found but 
> apparently only when cross-compiling: src/toolchain/BUILD.gn isn't created at 
> first under the build dir:
> 
> https://www.google.com/search?q=webengine+%22ERROR+at+%2F%2FBUILD.gn%3A74%3A1%3A+Can%27t+load+input+file.
> %22&oq=webengine+%22ERROR+at+%2F%2FBUILD.gn%3A74%3A1%3A+Can%27t+load+input+file.
> %22
> 
> I'm not cross-compiling, I'm simply doing an out-of-tree build.
> 
> Why does this happen? The only leads I found were "install gperf flex and bison" 
> (I already had all 3) and "just run the configure step once more". That works, 
> but is a bit kludgy and not feasible for packaging scripts and CI set-ups.
> 
> FOrtunately the contents of the file are straightforward and trivial to get right 
> starting with a template *before* running the initial configure, but that has 
> side-effects too. It gives a 2nd build during the configure step: first 330 files 
> corresponding to building Ninja (I think), then 639 more files it didn't build 
> before.
> 
> Does anyone have a real fix?
> 
> Thanks,
> René
> 
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