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When packaging different Qt versions for Linux distributions (or any distribution with a common bin dir), Qt tools cannot be installed to /usr/bin, because the executable names of the different Qt versions clash. To solve this conflict, our recommendation is to install Qt's tools to /usr/lib/qt6/bin and to create versioned symlinks to user-facing tools in /usr/bin. User-facing tools are tools that are supposed to be started manually by the user. They are marked in Qt's build system. Distro package maintainers can now configure with -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr -DINSTALL_BINDIR=/usr/lib/qt6/bin -DINSTALL_PUBLICBINDIR=/usr/bin and will find a file called user_facing_tool_links.txt in the build directory after the cmake run. Nothing will be installed to INSTALL_PUBLICBINDIR. Each line of user_facing_tool_links.txt consists of the installation path of a user-facing application followed by a space and the versioned link name in INSTALL_PUBLICBINDIR. Example content: /usr/lib/qt6/bin/qmake /usr/bin/qmake6 To actually create the versioned symlinks, the content of this file can be fed to ln like this: xargs ln -s < build-dir/user_facing_tool_links.txt Or the package maintainer may decide to do something completely different as suits their needs. This patch adds the USER_FACING argument to qt_internal_add_tool to mark tools as user-facing. In addition, every Qt created by qt_internal_add_app is treated as user-facing. The only tool this patch marks as user-facing in qtbase is qmake. Pick-to: 6.1 Fixes: QTBUG-89170 Change-Id: I52673b1c8d40f40f56a74203065553115e2c4de5 Reviewed-by: Kai Koehne <kai.koehne@qt.io> Reviewed-by: Shawn Rutledge <shawn.rutledge@qt.io> |
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| doc | ||
| generators | ||
| library | ||
| cachekeys.h | ||
| CMakeLists.txt | ||
| main.cpp | ||
| meta.cpp | ||
| meta.h | ||
| option.cpp | ||
| option.h | ||
| project.cpp | ||
| project.h | ||
| property.cpp | ||
| property.h | ||
| qmake_pch.h | ||
| qmakelibraryinfo.cpp | ||
| qmakelibraryinfo.h | ||