[OE-core] [PATCH] qt: updated qmake2 class to export qconfig.pri mkspec

[Felipe Ferreri Tonello]

Hi Paul,

On Wednesday, May 15, 2013 05:39:38 PM Paul Eggleton wrote:
> On Wednesday 15 May 2013 13:31:41 Otavio Salvador wrote:
> > On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 3:15 PM,  <eu at felipetonello.com> wrote:
> > > From: "Felipe F. Tonello" <eu at felipetonello.com>
> > > 
> > > This is necessary when Qt applicatins want to know variables such as
> > > QT_MAJOR_VERSION, QT_VERSION, QT_MINOR_VERSION, gcc version etc.
> > > 
> > > OBS: This change made the build system crazy. When I changed it and run
> > > bitbake my-qt-app-recipe, qmake was consuming 100% cpu usage for long
> > > time. I had to stop it. So I recommend rebuild the entire Qt stack when
> > > changing this.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Felipe F. Tonello <eu at felipetonello.com>
> > > ---
> > > 
> > >  meta/classes/qmake2.bbclass | 1 +
> > >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/meta/classes/qmake2.bbclass b/meta/classes/qmake2.bbclass
> > > index 5eebd8e..8b9861c 100644
> > > --- a/meta/classes/qmake2.bbclass
> > > +++ b/meta/classes/qmake2.bbclass
> > > @@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ inherit qmake_base
> > > 
> > >  DEPENDS_prepend = "qt4-tools-native "
> > >  
> > >  export QMAKESPEC = "${STAGING_DATADIR}/qt4/mkspecs/${TARGET_OS}-oe-g++"
> > > 
> > > +export OE_QMAKE_QT_CONFIG =
> > > "${STAGING_DATADIR}/qt4/mkspecs/qconfig.pri"
> > > 
> > >  export OE_QMAKE_UIC = "${STAGING_BINDIR_NATIVE}/uic4"
> > >  export OE_QMAKE_UIC3 = "${STAGING_BINDIR_NATIVE}/uic34"
> > >  export OE_QMAKE_MOC = "${STAGING_BINDIR_NATIVE}/moc4"
> > 
> > The patch makes a lot of sense for me, Paul?
> 
> I'm not sure I know enough about this to say either way; the comment about
> qmake going crazy doesn't exactly inspire confidence though...

About that I'm not sure why it happened. But after cleaning all Qt related 
builds it worked as expected.

> 
> I guess one question I would have is why have we not needed this before?

This is been used in the Qt based SDK. It's necessary to build Qt applications 
or libraries that makes use of those cited variables in their Qt project file.

-- 
Felipe Ferreri Tonello