[OE-core] [PATCH v3] packagegroup-qt-toolchain-target.inc: add libQtUiTools static library

[Diego Sueiro]

Paul,
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 11:42 AM, Paul Eggleton <
paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com> wrote:

> I know there's already been a bit of discussion about this patch already,
> so I
> apologise if this has already been covered, but the commit message doesn't
> completely justify this addition. Most people don't statically link to Qt,
> which is why we haven't included any static libraries in the SDK (and as a
> rule we typically don't include any static libraries in our SDKs). Why is
> this
> individual library out of all of the libraries that Qt ships special?
>
I did a research on internet and just found static library for uitools. I
could not found anything that explains the reasons for not generating a
shared library.
People will not be able to use uitools If this library is not shipped with
SDK.
I tried to explain this dependency on commit message:

> libQtUiTools.a and libQtUiToolsE.a needs to be installed on
> meta-toolchain-qt
> and meta-toolchain-qte respectively.
> Whitout this static library, compiling qt apps which needs uitools will
> fail.




Regards,

--
*dS
Diego Sueiro

Administrador do Embarcados
www.embarcados.com.br<http://www.embarcados.com.br/?utm_source=assinatura_diego&utm_medium=e-mail&utm_campaign=Assinatura%20Email%20Diego>

/*long live rock 'n roll*/
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.openembedded.org/pipermail/openembedded-core/attachments/20140226/fe5c3e1b/attachment-0002.html>