Hi Dmitry, On Sat, Feb 29, 2020 at 11:48:47PM +0300, Dmitry Shachnev wrote: > As we discussed on IRC, a separate package won't help much, as it cannot > declare a dependency on qt5-qmake:native anyway. The :native qualifier only > makes sense in Build-Depends.
Details. It's technically possible, but we don't want it here: > Also, I figured out that lrelease (lrelease-pro in new Qt) does not > actually need *native* qmake, the cross qmake works as well. We just need > to specify QMAKE environment variable that it honors: > > https://code.qt.io/cgit/qt/qttools.git/tree/src/linguist/lprodump/main.cpp?h=v5.14.1#n439 > > As I just demonstrated in https://bugs.debian.org/889752#10, this approach > works. So I propose to close this bug and export QMAKE to qmake cross > wrapper in the affected packages instead. The approach is much better. Thank you. I'm left wondering whether we should ask Guillem to include QMAKE in /usr/share/dpkg/buildtools.mk. Once doing so, exporting QMAKE can be as simple as: DPKG_EXPORT_BUILDTOOLS=1 include /usr/share/dpkg/buildtools.mk or include /usr/share/dpkg/buildtools.mk export QMAKE If you agree, I propose repurposing this bug report for asking Guillem to extend buildtools.mk. Helmut
