[Qt-interest] qmake does not find source files

[Schimkowitsch Robert]

Frankly, there was a little frustration doing the talking.

Having read a while ago that ".pro" and ".pri" files were essentially the same, and also having read that source file paths are relative to the ".pro"-files, I concluded the same must go for ".pri" files.

Then I changed that for a few dozen projects.

THEN I double-checked.

I agree, once you know, it does make sense from a technical standpoint, at least.

Kind regards

Robert Schimkowitsch

-----Original Message-----
From: Joerg Bornemann [mailto:joerg.bornemann at nokia.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2011 10:00 AM
To: Schimkowitsch Robert
Cc: qt-interest at qt.nokia.com
Subject: Re: [Qt-interest] qmake does not find source files

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


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