[Qt-creator] Request: dropping support for macx-g++ to *compile* Qt Creator

André Pönitz andre.poenitz at mathematik.tu-chemnitz.de
Fri Dec 28 20:50:44 CET 2012


Ziller Eike wrote:
> Erik Verbruggen wrote:
> > Hereby I would like to ask to officially drop support to *compile* Qt
> > Creator with macx-g++. [...]
>
> I don't have a big problem with dropping compilation support of Qt Creator
> with that mkspec/compiler. The "funky incomprehensible error messages" can
> be circumvented by making the Qt Creator .pro file bail out with a useful
> error + hint for that mkspec, similar to how we do it for the Qt version.

Is macx-g++ needed for any of the Qt builds for which we might need
to ship SDK packages at some point of time? If so, dropping that
configuration for building Creator might impact building the SDK...

If we don't need it for the SDK, the idea sounds ok.

Andre'



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