Re: Bug#1057359: qmake: use qmake6 when QT_SELECT=qt6

Hi,

On Wed, 13 Dec 2023 at 15:04, Salvo Tomaselli <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > This is also being used in src:explosive-c4 now and the approach breaks
> > cross compilation. Please stop doing this, we'll have to touch all of
> > these.
> >
> > Still the use case is real and we need a better way to build packages
> > with qmake6. I was talking with Sune and Lisandro on IRC and their
> > consensus seems to have been that qtchooser and QT_SELECT are dead and
> > should not be used for Qt6. They suggested that we add add a new
> > --buildsystem to debhelper. We already have qmake_qt4 and qmake, why not
> > have qmake6? While changing QT_SELECT from qt5 to qt6 would be
> > convenient, changing it to "dh $@ --buildsystem qmake6" is easy enough,
> > no? The qmake6 build system can reuse qmake just like qmake_qt4 and
> > doing it that way immediately makes cross compilation just work (since
> > we already have <triplet>-qmake6). Lisandro requested naming it qmake6
> > rather than qmake_qt6. Even though this breaks consistency with earlier
> > use in debhelper, the similarity to how upstream calls it more
> > important.
> >
> > Salvo and Alexandre, do you second this?
>
> It would be fine by me, I hope it should be cleaner than how it was to go from
> 4 to 5.

The cleanest way is to use CMake, as it can handle this directly in
code. And I guess qmake will probably not be a thing for Qt 7.

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