On Sat, 7 Oct 2017 00:59:33 +1300
Christian Gagneraud <chg...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Sorry for not being clear. Basically what i said was:
> - With QtC, If your device mkspec is broken (a qmake/Qt thing), Qbs
> will give you weird error messages.
> - In my respect It shouldn't, because I'm aiming to control qbs
> profiles from QtC, including cross-compile specifics of all sorts,
> without Qt/qmake's assistance.
> - This doesn't seem to be Qbs's fault (more like Qtc+Qt+qmake integration 
> fault)

Well, qmake is at the moment the "official entry point" into a Qt installation, 
so in the end, all information is derived from it.
In particular, the active mkspec is relevant also for what qbs gets to know 
about this particular Qt configuration.

> The error message about "Qt.core.qtBuildVariant" was far away from the
> "CROSS_COMPILE" problem in qt5/mkspecs/devices/mine/qmake.conf.
> I'm not blaming Qbs, but suggesting that an early warning system could
> have say something like:
> warning : Qbs.profiles.<profile>.qt.sanity: something is weird.

That's *kind of* what happened: The Qt.core module in qbs has a validate 
script. This script does some sanity checks, one of them being that the list of 
build variants is not empty. This one failed, resulting in the output you saw. 
The preceding checks succeeded, meaning we detected no problem with e.g. the 
path to the libraries or the version number.
So what kind of check would you suggest that would also have caught the 
problem, but with a better error message?


Christian
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