qmake build system issue

[Martin Gysel]

Am 14.11.2013 22:26, schrieb 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?

yes, confirmed
thanks