On Sunday 17 August 2014 18:23:13 Elvis Stansvik wrote: > 1) What is this cache file? I can't remember ever seeing that on Linux or > Windows.
It's a file called .qmake.cache. There are lots of those in the Qt build. > 2) Why is QMake only loading the .prf files in the project root if there's > a cache file? It seems an arbitrary limitation to me, but perhaps I'm > missing something? I think the question you're missing is this: how does qmake know that a particular directory is the project root? > AFAICS this makes it impossible to ship custom .prf files with your project > and rely on them being loaded by QMake Why? Why can't you create the .qmake.cache file? -- Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center _______________________________________________ Interest mailing list Interest@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest