[Buildroot] [git commit] qextserialport: don't require Qt GUI module

[Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>]

On 16/11/12 00:54, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote:
[snip]
>> +diff -Nrup qextserialport-f83b4e7ca922e53.orig/qextserialport.pro
>> qextserialport-f83b4e7ca922e53/qextserialport.pro
>> +--- qextserialport-f83b4e7ca922e53.orig/qextserialport.pro 2012-10-17 09:13:53.000000000 +0200
>> ++++ qextserialport-f83b4e7ca922e53/qextserialport.pro    2012-11-13 22:48:29.249431510 +0100
>> +@@ -41,6 +41,8 @@ macx:qesp_mac_framework {
>> +
>> + win32|mac:!wince*:!win32-msvc:!macx-xcode:CONFIG += debug_and_release
>> build_all
>> +
>> ++!win32*:!wince*:QT -= gui
>> ++
>> + #generate proper library name
>> + greaterThan(QT_MAJOR_VERSION, 4) {
>> +     QESP_LIB_BASENAME = QtExtSerialPort
>
>   After submitting this patch upstream, the feedback I got is that it should
> not be necessary to do this.  Looking a bit deeper, it turns out they are
> right, in a way.  We use the qws mkspecs file, which includes
> QT += core gui network
>
>   I.e., by default the gui will always be linked in, and -DQT_GUI_LIB  will be added
> to the compile flags. It seems logical that Qt would remove the ones that aren't
> installed, but it doesn't.  So we should do it ourselves.
>
>   While we're at it, we could also throw out our patching of the platform-specific
> qws config file: we are anyway replacing all "interesting" variables with our own
> values, so all useful content is thrown away.  Instead, we could make our own spec
> file that contains exactly what we need:
>
> include(../../common/linux.conf)
> include(../../common/gcc-base-unix.conf)
> include(../../common/g++-unix.conf)
> include(../../common/qws.conf)
> <our stuff goes here>
> load(qt_config)
>
>
>   What do you think?


  Thomas,

  Now that you're working on Qt5, maybe you can check with qt-project if 
this is indeed the way to go?

  Regards,
  Arnout

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