[ptxdist] [RFC PATCH 0/1] building qmake based target packages

[Alexander Dahl <ada@thorsis.com>]

Hello everyone,

I currently have some kind of weird requirement: building a target
package with qmake, but not linking against Qt.  It's a fork of RTKlib
which is itself a university project (with hand written makefiles, but
not for the part I'm interested in):

https://github.com/rtklibexplorer/RTKLIB/releases/tag/b34h

I actually achieved building it with the attached make rule.  Note it
has a dependency to QT5, but I had to manually add the Qt mkspec file
ptxdist creates as an option to the _CONF_OPT variable.

Two things are bad about this:

1.) I don't think it should be necessary to let the make rule set the
correct mkspec file.  There is only one and IMHO ptxdist should handle
this internally if CONF_TOOL is qmake?

2.) rather large Qt libraries are installed to the target now.  I guess
I might be able to avoid this by setting 'select QT5 if BUILDTIME' in
the in rule, but I would have expected HOST_QT5 to be sufficient.  This
does not work however for two reasons: a) ptxdist complains it needs QT5
if CONF_TOOL is qmake and b) if I only select HOST_QT5 that mkspec is
not generated.

I saw ptxdist having nearly zero packages selecting QT5, and none
requiring HOST_QT5 (?) so it's difficult to learn from examples here.
Maybe this usecase is quite esoteric?  Don't know.

In the end I would only need qmake, nothing more.  That one generates a
Makefile which is then used to compile the package.

Would take directions to improve ptxdist for qmake based packages.

Greets
Alex

Alexander Dahl (1):
  WIP: rtklib-demo5: Add new package

 rules/rtklib-demo5.in   | 23 ++++++++++++++++
 rules/rtklib-demo5.make | 58 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 81 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 rules/rtklib-demo5.in
 create mode 100644 rules/rtklib-demo5.make


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