Re: [Boost-build] Qt4 toolset with custom variants.

From: Juergen Hunold (hunold_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-09-15 05:21:05

Hi Bojan !

On Friday 15 September 2006 10:18, Bojan Resnik wrote:
>    Would it be possible to tie the library to something other than
> variant? It seems likely that people might have variants derived from
> debug, in which case the debug version of Qt should also be used. Can
> the library depend on something like <runtime-debugging> feature?

Well, <runtime-debugging> is a NT-specific feature, AFAIC. So its 
basically useless on Linux. And <debug-symbols>on is used in my custom 
variant and I want a release Qt :-((

I think that we are forced to drop debug/release support for 4.2 because 
Trolltech removed the combined "debug_and_release" configuration. So 
you have to build two Qt binaries for debug/release anyway.
 
So the way to go should be to add more options for configuring the 
toolset, especially:
- version information, which should go to the generated paths (like 
python.jam does), so you can have several Qt's installled.
- configuring of src/bin/lib/include/ paths instead of one prefix.

But this should be done when 1.34 is out.
And I think we should wait for Qt-34.2 final, too.

And as a last resort I have a set of Jamfiles for building Qt-4.x with 
bjam :-)) 

Yours,

Jürgen
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