[Qt-interest] Ulternative to qmake

[yogesh upreti]

Hi Daniel,
So what build system will you suggest as a replacement for qmake?

Regards
Yogesh Upreti

 Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 10:13:53 +0100
> From: Daniel Price <daniel.price at fxhome.com>
> Subject: Re: [Qt-interest] Ulternative to qmake
> To: "R. Reucher" <rene.reucher at batcom-it.net>,
>        "qt-interest at trolltech.com" <qt-interest at trolltech.com>
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> > 1) You should fix you installation. If qmake "doesn't work anymore"
> > then
> > there are _reasons_ to it...
> >
>
> Yeah the reasons are: qmake is crap :)
>
> I really like the syntax of .pro/.pri files but qmake is really, really bad
> at handling dependencies, dependency changes etc. PRE_TARGETDEPS et-al don't
> always work and/or subtle errors can be really hard to track down.
>
> If I add a library dep to a .pro file, why do I also need to use
> poorly-documented variables to tell qmake to re-link when those deps change?
>
> I've literally lost hours trying to debug strange crashes only to find that
> qmake had failed to re-link properly to a changed library. I've NEVER had
> problems like this in other build systems.
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