[oe] Building auxiliary tools in qmake2-native
Michael Krelin
hacker at klever.net
Tue Jul 17 22:06:56 UTC 2007
>> I do not know what 'lrelease' is (ignorant, remember?), so I'd also ask
>> if you really sure that, for instance, uicmoc is not a better place for
>> the tool than qmake?
>>
>
> This is the tool which generates the final binary version of the
> message catalogs. The equivalent for a libintl-based project would be
> "msgfmt."
Thanks, that explains the purpose of the tool, but I would be still in
doubt where should it go if not in lrelease-native (after all we do have
opie-lrelease-native package).
> I had completely managed to overlook the presence of the uicmoc-native
> packages. Let me give those a try before bothering anybody further
> about this stuff.
No, I think I know it's not there.
>> The other thing is that when building uicmoc with qt3support module OE
>> has to build almost the whole qt, anyway. Would it not be better if we
>> just have qt-native package with all the tools installed? That would
>> reduce the amount of merciless and senseless patching and I believe
>> would reduce the slice of disk-space/cpu-time continuum eaten up by most
>> of the builds.
>
> I'm pretty much agnostic about the breakdown of the particular
> packages that end up providing the native tools used during target
> builds.
I understand, this pretty general question was a call for opinions.
Love,
H
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