[Releasing] [Development] FW: Finalizing qt5.2 RC1

[Oswald Buddenhagen]

On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 07:41:43PM +0100, Wolfgang Bremer wrote:
> We did the last merge from upstream/release on the 12th November.
> Since then the following commits went into QtBase in the release branch 
> and applied changes to the configure script.
> 
> 02556c0 clean up mess surrounding PLATFORM_MAC
> f0524ce consolidate all license checking in the earliest place possible
> a6b9729 don't initialize build dir earlier than necessary
> 078ad53 print help right after parsing command line
> 558b0a2 make help independent from options and environment
> 925899d do CONFIG+=silent after configure tests
> 862fbd9 move some option validations to more relevant places
> d1990a7 don't automatically display help on error
> c9692fb remove hacks to support solaris 2.[56] and aix < 5
> 7faf1a7 initialize WHICH, AWK, PERL and MAKE a bit earlier
> 08d7bac configure: Document that -sdk only applies to the target mkspec
> 
> Honestly, I don't know which commit exactly now causes the configure 
> call to fail.
>
please bisect it. not that it would change anything, but i'm curious
what i missed.

>          -no-sql-sqlite_symbian \
>          -no-sql-symsql \
>
*this* is your problem. there are no such plugins in qt upstream. and
most likely your downstream. you copied the line cargo cult like from
some 4.8 setup and were lucky so far for some bizarre reason.

> I don't want to blame any one, but this should just not happen on the 
> release branch.
>
it's a classical case of garbage in, garbage out. there are no
guarantees for invalid input; any bugfix can legitimately break it at
any point, and as your setup is not part of the CI, we won't even know
until you complain.