[Qbs] Qt.core.qtBuildVariant is not supported by this Qt installation

[Christian Kandeler]

On Fri, 29 Sep 2017 22:53:08 +1300
Christian Gagneraud <chgans at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 29 September 2017 at 21:48, Christian Kandeler
> <christian.kandeler at qt.io> wrote:
> > On Fri, 29 Sep 2017 10:45:08 +1300
> > Christian Gagneraud <chgans at gmail.com> wrote:
> >  
> >> Hi there,
> >>
> >> Using QtC 4.4 with built-in Qbs, and custom Qt/toolchain builds
> >> (Qt-5.6), I can use qbs to open my projects in QtC.
> >>
> >> But today I had to investigate a bug in our code which required me to
> >> use a different custom build (still is 5.6, but older)
> >>
> >> With this Qt build Qbs complains with:
> >> /home/developer/.config/QtProject/qtcreator/qbs/1.9.0/profiles/qtc_NOS_imx6_d5c4604e/modules/Qt/core/core.qbs:181:
> >> warning: The following properties have invalid values:
> >> Qt.core.availableBuildVariants: the Qt installation supports no build variants
> >> Qt.core.qtBuildVariant: '' is not supported by this Qt installation  
> >
> > Please show us the QT_CONFIG line(s) from that Qt's mkspecs/qconfig.pri file.  
> 
> Rrrr, my mkspecs seem to be generated at install time of our stuff..,
> kind of difficult to track unfortunately. But it is doable.

??

> In the mean-time, could you point to a particular qmake feature? Like
> is it a PATH issue, an ABI issue, whatever ...

Sorry, not sure what you mean. The QT_CONFIG value contains entries "debug" and/or "release", which are the build variants available with that Qt installation. You can also retrieve the value by running qmake on a .pro file containing the line "message($$QT_CONFIG)".


Christian