[Interest] bulding Qt from git

[Allan Sandfeld Jensen]

On Montag, 25. Oktober 2021 17:27:38 CEST Alexander Carôt wrote:
> Final three conclusions of this resolved thread:
>  
> 1.) I learned that the dev branch is not necessarily stable. In this case Qt
> staff is working on qtpositioning and when trying to build the dev branch
> one needs to -skip qtpositioning in the confguation process. 
> 2.) cmake config messages are misleading and/or probably wrong:
> 2.1) Qt is now configured for building. Just run 'cmake --build .
> --parallel'   shows up even when errors have occurred
> 
> 2.2) configuration errors should be detected right from the immediate
> terminal output and not from CMakeError.log or CMakeOutput.log.   
> 3.) The last issue regarding "bad CPU type" occurred due to using another
> (outdated) Python installation on my machine – after removal it used the
> up2date Phython version and eventually compiled fine. 
> Thanks again to anyone who contributed,
> best
>  
Also you might get better results not using a top-level build, but instead 
build each module individually. That is how the CI runs and thus less likely 
to break.

'Allan