Build issues

[Dirk Hohndel]

On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 09:12:18PM +0200, Lubomir I. Ivanov wrote:
> On 15 February 2015 at 21:01, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:
> >> > Also with the new write-version thingy... the first time I run make, I get
> >> > something weird like "sh: Syntax error, unexpected end of line in line:1"
> >> > Starting the make again works. Any idea what's up with that?
> >>
> >> can't seem to reproduce it...let me look into it again.
> >> Thiago said that it works for him (under Linux i assume).
> >
> > I had this happen on Linux both native and cross building for Windows. But
> > only the first time I try it. Haven't done a clean checkout and tried
> > again.
> >
> 
> that's odd.
> 
> > I just ran into another problem. You removed a ton of stuff from
> > subsurface-install.pri that was used to set up the versions. You ignored
> > the fact that the variables used in that process are reused later in that
> > file both for Windows and Mac builds... So this all needs to be redesigned
> > in order to make sure that this data is now assembled at make time
> > (instead of at qmake time).
> 
> yakes, so variables from subsurface-gen-version.pri are used in
> subsurface-install.pri.
> FULL_VERSION, PRODVERSION_STRING to name a few.

Yes, it's a mess. A complete idiot when it comes to qmake (i.e., me) has
hacked this badly to make his setup work :-/

> > Right now this prevents me from doing my usual Windows and Mac builds :-(
> 
> sorry about that. this is way more entangled than i tough.
> for now, i can just bring some of those variables as $system() calls
> on qmake time?

I gotta run and do family things for the next few hours. I'd love to see
proposed patches that fix the mess :-)

/D