[Qt-creator] Qt Creator 2.8 on Linux - g++ version

[Peter Pearson]

On 02/07/13 13:53, Koehne Kai wrote:
> Hi
>
> Actually I always wanted to check out how far we could get with building Qt Creator packages with obs (http://openbuildservice.org/, http://build.opensuse.org/). In theory this should allow us to build rpm/debian packages  for various distributions (OpenSUSE, Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora and Mandriva)  with 'native' packages that get dependencies etc right.
>
> Any thoughts / comments on this?

The documentation (online HTML at the very least) for obs seems to be 
missing quite a few sections, so I don't really understand what it provides.

But at the end of the day, having builds done on Virtual Machines of a 
particular known distro at a specific version, should be fine, and 
should allow you to build on older systems. That's basically what we do, 
on CentOS 5.4.

Also all the stuff like Python and Qt that is linked against the 
application you're building has to be built with the same machines so 
they're consistent and ABI compatible.

Again, it's annoying using an older compiler (and on our own desktops in 
addition to the build machines), and means we don't get new things like 
nicer error messages and newer C++ features, but it allows our products 
to work on a lot of old and new distributions.

Peter