[Qt-creator] qmake and backtick command arguments

[Andrzej Telszewski]

On 21/02/16 11:59, Andrzej Telszewski wrote:
> On 21/02/16 11:53, Konstantin Tokarev wrote:
>>
>>
>> 21.02.2016, 13:50, "Andrzej Telszewski" <atelszewski at gmail.com>:
>>> On 21/02/16 11:34, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>>>>   On 21/02/16 11:47, Andrzej Telszewski wrote:
>>>>>   Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>>   I'm trying to do something like this in .pro file:
>>>>>   INCLUDEPATH += \
>>>>>      `php-config --includes`
>>>>
>>>>   Try the system() function in combination with the "$$" operator (for
>>>>   variable expansion):
>>>>
>>>>      INCLUDEPATH += $$system(php-config --includes)
>>>
>>> It works!
>>>
>>> Now I have another problem:
>>>
>>> The output of php-config --includes is:
>>> -I/usr/include/php -I/usr/include/php/main -I/usr/include/php/TSRM
>>> -I/usr/include/php/Zend -I/usr/include/php/ext
>>> -I/usr/include/php/ext/date/lib
>>>
>>> And in consequence INCLUDEPATH becomes:
>>> -I-I/usr/include/php -I-I/usr/include/php/main -I-I/usr/include/php/TSRM
>>> -I-I/usr/include/php/Zend -I-I/usr/include/php/ext
>>> -I-I/usr/include/php/ext/date/lib
>>>
>>> that is, extra "-I" is added by qmake.
>>>
>>> Is there an easy way to work around it?
>>>
>>> "php-config" does not seem to have any possibility of tweaking its
>>> output.
>>
>> You need to use QMAKE_CXXFLAGS (or QMAKE_CFLAGS if you build C)
>> instead of INCLUDEPATH.
>>
>
> This yields yet another inconvenience. Using QMAKE_CFLAGS allows
> application to compile fine, but header files are not seen by Qt Creator
> and so cannot be nicely navigated.
>
> Any thoughts on that?
>

I'm on Linux, so as a quick workaround something like this works fine:
INCLUDEPATH += \
   $$system(php-config --includes | sed -e 's:-I::g')

that is using "sed" to remove the extra "-I".

Is there some more qmake-like solution?
If not, I'm gonna stick with sed.

-- 
Best regards,
Andrzej Telszewski