qmake build system issue

[Thiago Macieira]

On quinta-feira, 14 de novembro de 2013 21:45:22, Martin Gysel wrote:
> Hi
> 
> while trying to write an gentoo ebuild for the qt version I came across
> a build system issue. running qmake on a clean checkout doesn't generate
> an install rule for files which do not exist at that time. this affects
> the install rule for the html documetation as the html file is generated
> during building.
> 
> here's a snippet from the Makefile generated after a clean checkout
> install_doc: first FORCE
>         @$(CHK_DIR_EXISTS) $(INSTALL_ROOT)/$(DOCDIR)/ || $(MKDIR)
> $(INSTALL_ROOT)/$(DOCDIR)/
> 
>         $(MAKE) -C /home/bearsh/workspace/subsurface/Documentation
> OUT=/home/bearsh/workspace/subsurface/Documentation/ doc
>         -$(INSTALL_DIR)
> /home/bearsh/workspace/subsurface/Documentation/images
> $(INSTALL_ROOT)/$(DOCDIR)/
> 
> once I call make or create the empty file
> 'Documentation/user-manual.html' the Makefile looks like this:
> install_marbledir: first FORCE
>         @$(CHK_DIR_EXISTS) $(INSTALL_ROOT)/$(DATADIR)/subsurface/ ||
> $(MKDIR) $(INSTALL_ROOT)/$(DATADIR)/subsurface/
>         -$(INSTALL_DIR)
> /home/bearsh/workspace/subsurface/marbledata/maps
> $(INSTALL_ROOT)/$(DATADIR)/subsurface/
>         -$(INSTALL_DIR)
> /home/bearsh/workspace/subsurface/marbledata/bitmaps
> $(INSTALL_ROOT)/$(DATADIR)/subsurface/

That's the Marble maps section.

> 
> after some googling it seems to be a known or expected behaviour of qmake :(

Indeed.

> any ideas how to solve this issue? one *dirty* way would be to add an
> empty user-manual.html to git and put it also into .gitignore or we add
> a install target to the doc Makefile or we simply remove the installing
> of any doc file, so it's up to the packager to 'install' it or not.

This patch should help. Can you confirm so Dirk can apply it?

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