[Qt-interest] qmake does not find source files

[Joerg Bornemann]

On Tue, 2011-10-04 at 09:25 +0200, ext Schimkowitsch Robert wrote:

> That doesn't make much sense.

It might be inconvenient but its totally sensible.
The include(foo.pri) copies the content of foo.pri just like the C
preprocessor does. No magic, no surprise.
 
> The .pro file naturally needs to know where the .pri files is. But it
> shouldn't require knowledge of the source location within that .pri
> file. That would create a bunch of unneccessary dependencies causing
> the .pri file and it's sources to be less easily transferred or moved.

If you just prepend $$PWD to your source files in a .pri there are no
dependencies which prevent you from moving the folder where the .pri
file is located.
 
> Also, I couldn't find anything about that in the qmake documentation.

Actually, that might be the biggest problem. :-)

We have
http://doc.qt.nokia.com/4.7/qmake-function-reference.html#include-filename
http://doc.qt.nokia.com/4.7/qmake-variable-reference.html#pwd

But the reader must connect these loose strings him/herself.


BR,

Jörg