[Interest] Build Issues with QT 6.2.3

[BeneschTech LLC]

So you guys put in a work around cmake as well...

Ill be happy to compile the changes needed once I get linguist building.
Just curious why the change? Is there a benefit to these tools?

On Sun, Feb 6, 2022, 7:59 AM Volker Hilsheimer <volker.hilsheimer at qt.io>
wrote:

> > On 6 Feb 2022, at 15:37, BeneschTech LLC <chris at beneschtech.com> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks! I dont like ruby either lol. I found two more files that broke
> as well the fixes were trivial. Havent tried to fix linguist yet.
> >
> > I have three big problems with the cmake and ninja combo:
> > 1. Ninja uses all the cpu cores +1 by default. Unless you have a water
> cooled system you will overheat on a 30k file build like this.
>
> You can pass -j x to ninja to limit the number of parallel jobs, e.g.
>
> $ ninja -j 6
>
> or more flexibly
>
> $ ninja -j $(( $(nproc) - 2 ))
>
>
> > 2 . Cmake does not store your last configuration command anywhere i can
> find like autotools does.
>
>
> Assuming that your issues are mostly with building Qt (because you’re
> probably not using cmake for your own project), the Qt configure script
> does still save the command options, so “configure -redo” will work as
> before.
>
>
> > 3 . During the build you can not see the flags being passed to the
> compiler. If you have an odd configuration like I do where I use clangs
> polly extension theres no easy way to see that its being used correctly.
>
> Have you tried
>
> $ ninja -v
>
> ?
>
> > Qt itself is wonderful well written software and ive only ever
> encountered issues with third party code. Indulge us old guys though. We
> have reasons we like traditional make and autotools.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Volker
>
>
>
> > On Sun, Feb 6, 2022, 7:22 AM Bob Hood <bhood2 at comcast.net> wrote:
> > On 2/5/2022 4:15 PM, BeneschTech LLC wrote:
> > > I have to say, not thrilled with the change to cmake/ninja, but maybe
> I'm
> > > just old and not "cool" LOL.
> >
> > You're not alone.
> >
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