[Releasing] Qt 5 alpha status

[Sergio Ahumada]

On 03/26/2012 09:24 PM, ext lars.knoll at nokia.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> we're getting closer to the Qt 5 alpha, but it unfortunately took a little
> longer than anticipated. Main issue is to get a couple of remaining
> patches in that are required for the release. They are mainly smaller
> fixes to our build system
>
> * Add build script for Qt 5
> (http://codereview.qt-project.org/#change,21261)
>
>
> This adds a top level build script to qt5.git to simplify building the
> package from source.
>
> * Add syncqt option -compat-headers and enable qmake to call that option
> (http://codereview.qt-project.org/#change,20927)
>
>
> This disables the Qt declarative compat headers by default as the modules
> that are part of the alpha have already been cleaned up. This will still
> get fully removed before the 5.0 final.
>
> * Sync configure with Unix version (-make/-nomake)
> (http://codereview.qt-project.org/#change,20778)
>
> Required, so we can re-enable the tests in a consistent way in the CI
> system.
>
>
> * Remove 'tests' as default build part
> (http://codereview.qt-project.org/#change,20781)
>
> Don't build tests of qtbase in the default build, as they aren't included
> in the package.
>
>
>
> I'll now go through them and try to stage the first three. Once they are
> in, we'll need to add -make tests to the configure parameters in our CI
> system, then we can stage the last one.
>

This is the change required in CI to stage the last change.

https://codereview.qt-project.org/20931

> Rohan, can you try and help getting these through tonight?
>
> If make it through the CI system tonight and we can create new and
> hopefully finally packages tomorrow morning.
>
> Cheers,
> Lars

Cheers,
-- 
Sergio Ahumada