turns out that just appending builtin-qt.conf isn't a good idea:
executable-editing tools (objcopy, prelink, etc.) will happily drop the
"attachment".
a safe method would be adding a proper section to the executable, but
there doesn't appear to be an objcopy equivalent in msvc, and using
entirely different methods of embedding the file with different
toolchains seems like a rather bad idea.
so instead go back to the old method of building qmake with a generated
qconfig.cpp. of course, as said file is now created by qmake itself, we
have to compile qlibraryinfo.cpp a second time, and link a second qmake
executable.
Task-number: QTBUG-57803
Change-Id: I9e232693550aa870cec154e49cc06add13017cc2
Reviewed-by: Lars Knoll <lars.knoll@qt.io>
this moves us another step towards the "outer" configure doing just
minimal bootstrapping of qmake.
a challenge here was that so far, qmake itself needed qconfig.cpp. this
was replaced by usage of a qt.conf file instead of compiled-in values.
however, to make the executable still self-contained, that qt.conf is
embedded into it (by simple appending of a fixed signature and the text
file).
the qmake with the embedded qt.conf is not used for the qt build itself,
which instead relies on the qt.conf in bin/ as before. however, due to
the missing built-in values, this file now needs to contain more
information than before. but except for a minimal version that is needed
to start up qmake/configure at all, that file is now also generated with
qmake. as some of the newly set up properties are subsequently used by
configure itself, qmake gains a (deliberately undocumented) function to
reload the qt.conf after it's fully populated.
unlike the old implementations, this one doesn't emit redundant qt.conf
entries which match the hard-coded fallbacks. omitting them leads to
leaner files which are more comprehensible.
Started-by: Paolo Angelelli <paolo.angelelli@qt.io>
Change-Id: I4526ef64b3c89d9851e10f83965fe479ed7f39f6
Reviewed-by: Jake Petroules <jake.petroules@qt.io>
This separation makes it possible to make a
canadian cross build of Qt on a linux build machine.
The canadian cross build requires an external Qt that
runs on the build system.
Change-Id: Ifd83a4c6376d3299647e74bb349a3452a6f433fc
Reviewed-by: Oswald Buddenhagen <oswald.buddenhagen@theqtcompany.com>
