Re: Building auxiliary tools in qmake2-native

[Michael Krelin <hacker@klever.net>]

>> I do not know what 'lrelease' is (ignorant, remember?), so I'd also ask
>> if you really sure that, for instance, uicmoc is not a better place for
>> the tool than qmake?
>>
> 
> This is the tool which generates the final binary version of the
> message catalogs. The equivalent for a libintl-based project would be
> "msgfmt."

Thanks, that explains the purpose of the tool, but I would be still in 
doubt where should it go if not in lrelease-native (after all we do have 
opie-lrelease-native package).

> I had completely managed to overlook the presence of the uicmoc-native
> packages. Let me give those a try before bothering anybody further
> about this stuff.

No, I think I know it's not there.

>> The other thing is that when building uicmoc with qt3support module OE
>> has to build almost the whole qt, anyway. Would it not be better if we
>> just have qt-native package with all the tools installed? That would
>> reduce the amount of merciless and senseless patching and I believe
>> would reduce the slice of disk-space/cpu-time continuum eaten up by most
>> of the builds.
> 
> I'm pretty much agnostic about the breakdown of the particular
> packages that end up providing the native tools used during target
> builds.

I understand, this pretty general question was a call for opinions.

Love,
H