[Qt-creator] Building with virtual frame buffer

[André Pönitz]

On Tue, Apr 03, 2012 at 06:48:30AM -0400, Atlant Schmidt wrote:
> Eike:
> 
> > In general I wouldn't trust the 'confclean' target that Qt generates,
> > it doesn't quite remove everything also for applications built with
> > Qt/qmake. ...
> 
>   Is there a bug filed against this? That sounds like one of those
>   "broken windows" things that lets the neighborhood degrade.
> 
>   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_windows_theory

Folk lore has it that 'make clean' is always fragile and in most
cases insufficient, and often does not match user expectation, even
in the rare cases where in matches the developer's expectations
-- independent of the project.

Since the invention of shadow builds and 'forcefully cleaned source
trees' (a.k.a. git clean -dxf) the need for such make targets has
been greatly lowered. The user has all the control needed.

Andre'