qt_phonon.pri and QMAKESPEC

[Yury G. Kudryashov]

Michael Jansen wrote:

> Hi
> 
> We currently have some problem for people that compile phonon with a
> distro qt. Phonon tries to install a file into the qt prefix. The file is
> named qt_phonon.pri and is according to thiago a sign of things to come
> namely some modularization in qt. But it is not yet there. Which means if
> it is not installed into qt's prefix there is no way to make qmake pick it
> up. QMAKESPEC does not work.
> 
> First i would like to have the agreement here that installing things
> outside of the prefix the user picked is wrong so i don't have to much
> discussion with the maintainer (tried to fix such stuff before).
> Especially since there is currently no way to make it work outside of the
> qt prefix.
> 
> Second i would like to raise awareness there is something that this is
> something that is possibly on the horizon for more kde modules. I have no
> clue what that file is for btw.
> 
> For now i make the phonon install that file into the phonon prefix where
> it will be forgotten and without effect in build-tool.
Let packagers include rev. 210726453ff3ca0f16f036683e17097e1b62d458 from qt 
master tree. This makes qt load all modules from QMAKEPATH. I should've 
written here after this merge request was accepted.