On 2017-08-17 19:29+0930 Simon Lees wrote:
On 17/08/17 19:01, Jean-Michaël Celerier wrote:
And Mac doesn't have configure/autotools by defaul.
but... "configure" has nothing to do with autotools.
It's just a shell script (which is sometimes generated *from* autotools;
this is not the case with Qt AFAIK).
Yes Qt's configure is a stand alone script unrelated to autotools. Qt
uses its own build system thats shipped with it.
I can confirm that. Also, I have built Qt5 a couple of times, and I
was not particularly happy with the regidity of their build system
when attempting to drop components I was not using. And I was also
not happy with how the options for that configuration script changed
so drastically from one Qt5 version to the next. So it is always a
big disappointment to me that Qt5 does not have a flexible,
user-friendly CMake-based build system following what the KDE
developers have done for years.
So this is another "minor" project for Alex. :-)
Alan
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