Re: [Mingw-cross-env-list] Qt 4.7 beta in development version?

[Mark Brand]

> > If you would like to try it out for your project ahead of time, my
> > current snapshot for Qt 4.7-beta1 is here:
> >
> > http://www.xs4all.nl/~brandm/mingw-cross-env/qt.mk
> > http://www.xs4all.nl/~brandm/mingw-cross-env/qt-1-win32.patch
> I just included those, with a few minor adjustments.
> http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/mingw-cross-env/rev/3f5493c7f144

Wow. I was prepared for more controversy, but I think this is a good step.

> I'm mentioning your above URL in the patch:
>
>      This patch has been taken from:
>      http://qt.gitorious.org/qt/qt/merge_requests/654
>
> Is that correct?

Almost correct. The patches mentioned above are for the v4.7.0-beta1 
tag. For the merge request, I git-rebased these changes onto the 
"master" branch and added a few more improvements.

Probably in the future I will backport the merge request to v4.7.0-beta1 
for mingw-cross-env.

BTW, I wouldn't be surprised if we have to wait for 4.8 before these 
changes appear in Qt releases.

> An another question: Why did you remove the bindirsink?
>
>           -prefix '$(PREFIX)/$(TARGET)' \
>           -prefix-install \
> -        -bindir '$(1)'/bindirsink \
>           -script \
>           -opengl desktop \
>
> What kind of (interesting?) executables will be installed
> into usr/i686-pc-mingw32/bin by Qt?

The merge request is not specifically for mingw-cross-env. I figured the 
consequences of "make install" are somewhat out of scope given the wide 
variety of MinGW cross building environments that might be encountered.. 
My intention was to simplify the options where possible.  If I am not 
mistaken nothing will be installed in that "bin" directory without "make 
install".

regards,

Mark