Build system (was Re: Future of KDE Development)

Brad Hards bradh at frogmouth.net
Wed Feb 16 07:07:08 GMT 2005


On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 12:04 pm, Mike Richardson wrote:
> > I for myself have decided to stick with qmake for now, don't need weird
> > configure checks (besides, I think configure checks and compiling/linking
> > rules don't have to be written in the same language).
>
> For anything beyond a straight single-platform-compile-and-link I'd say
> that qmake is totally useless (I'm not saying that qmake is completely
> useless, just that it is very limited).
If you have simple configuration requirements (say you need to check for a 
library and headers, and just bail on that section if not), and like using Qt 
and qmake, consider qconf (http://delta.affinix.com/qconf/).

Brad
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