Re: [Mingw-cross-env-list] Qt suport for Debian kFreeBSD & DragonFly

[Mark Brand]

On 08/27/2011 10:47 PM, Tony Theodore wrote:
> Hi Mark,
>
> I just pushed two changes adding Qt support for Debian kFreeBSD&  DragonFly BSD:
>
>      http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/mingw-cross-env/rev/dd3d7f4521dc
>      http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/mingw-cross-env/rev/b314a30667f4
>
> These are "inspired by" the respective package management systems, but
> I haven't formulated them as upstream patches. Both systems do some
> platform detection and manipulation to determine the "-platform"
> argument. I can't imagine doing this easily in our makefiles, and in
> both cases the detection amounts to an alias to an underlying "base"
> system (linux for Debian, freebsd for DragonFly).
>
> I think it's reasonable to keep these as mingw-cross-env specific
> changes for the moment.
>
> Let me know what you think.
>
> Tony

Hi Tony,

The changes to the configure script look reasonable.

I don't fully understand the changes to src/corelib/global/qglobal.h. If 
Q_OS_FREEBSD_KERNEL is new, why doesn't the patch add any sensitivity to 
it? But I assume the authors knew what they were doing.

So yes, let's keep these as "mingw-cross-env specific" for the time 
being. But since both are really about configuring Qt on the respective 
platforms, I hope the discussion continues in Qt merge requests.

Mark