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

[Alexander Dahl <ada@thorsis.com>]

Hello Michael,

Am Fri, Nov 10, 2023 at 08:51:01AM +0100 schrieb Michael Olbrich:
> On Tue, Oct 17, 2023 at 01:35:14PM +0200, Alexander Dahl wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> I'm pretty sure you're calling the wrong qmake here. You need to modify
> PATH the same way e.g. rules/qwt5.make does.

This works, thanks.

(If not setting that, the qmake of my host system was taken.  Double
checked that by removing that qmake for now.)

> > 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.
> 
> Do you need qmake from qt5 or would qt6 work as well? We already have a
> host-qt6 package and if we build the binary there and split out the qmake
> config stuff from qt6 into a new cross-qmake package.

Tested with 'select QT5' and 'select QT6' now and both work.
Only doing 'select HOST_QT5' or 'HOST_QT6' yields this:

    [ 35/171] started : rtklib-demo5.prepare
    
    ptxdist: error: 'rtklib-demo5' uses 'qmake' but does not select 'qt5' or 'qt6'

(With ptxdist-2023.03.0 at least.)

> It would need to copy the mkspecs from the host package I think before
> adding the custom mkspecs stuff.

This is not yet in place, right?  At least I could not see any related
changes between ptxdist-2023.05.0 and master.

Greets
Alex

> 
> Michael
> 
> > 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
> > 
> > 
> > base-commit: 90875f8af4f6f1dd9f8eda71df8e8a90866f9839
> > -- 
> > 2.30.2
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
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