somewhat misleading CMake output

[Kevin Funk]

On Monday, 9 January 2017 14:44:16 CET René J.V. Bertin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> FYI, a relatively minor thing. Observed when cmake'ing KDevPlatform:
> 
>  * Qt5Qml (required version >= 5.7.1)
>  * Qt5Quick (required version >= 5.7.1)
>  * Qt5Network (required version >= 5.7.1)
>  * Qt5WebKit (required version >= 5.7.1)

Note, this is being discussed on qt-dev now:
  http://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/development/2017-January/028296.html

> Given that the toplevel CMake file claims that the minimum required Qt
> version is 5.4.0 the claims about 5.7.1 above seem a bit bold. I noticed
> elsewhere that you get this when refer to
> Qt5::Qml/Qt5::Quick/Qt5::Network/Qt5::WebKit without having included them
> in the
> 
> find_package(Qt5 ${QT_MIN_VERSION} ...)
> 
> statement or a dedicated find_package call that provides the minimum
> accepted version.
> 
> I presume there are no building issues because all those components are
> dependencies of components that are found explicitly. The output can just
> be a bit misleading to packagers who no longer can be completely certain
> which information to trust.
> 
> R.


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Kevin Funk | kfunk at kde.org | http://kfunk.org
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