Hi, On Wed, 13 Dec 2023 at 15:04, Salvo Tomaselli <tipos...@tiscali.it> wrote: > > > This is also being used in src:explosive-c4 now and the approach breaks > > cross compilation. Please stop doing this, we'll have to touch all of > > these. > > > > Still the use case is real and we need a better way to build packages > > with qmake6. I was talking with Sune and Lisandro on IRC and their > > consensus seems to have been that qtchooser and QT_SELECT are dead and > > should not be used for Qt6. They suggested that we add add a new > > --buildsystem to debhelper. We already have qmake_qt4 and qmake, why not > > have qmake6? While changing QT_SELECT from qt5 to qt6 would be > > convenient, changing it to "dh $@ --buildsystem qmake6" is easy enough, > > no? The qmake6 build system can reuse qmake just like qmake_qt4 and > > doing it that way immediately makes cross compilation just work (since > > we already have <triplet>-qmake6). Lisandro requested naming it qmake6 > > rather than qmake_qt6. Even though this breaks consistency with earlier > > use in debhelper, the similarity to how upstream calls it more > > important. > > > > Salvo and Alexandre, do you second this? > > It would be fine by me, I hope it should be cleaner than how it was to go from > 4 to 5.
The cleanest way is to use CMake, as it can handle this directly in code. And I guess qmake will probably not be a thing for Qt 7. -- Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer https://perezmeyer.com.ar/
