[Buildroot] Qt4 - Qt5 Config anomaly

[Zoltan Gyarmati <mr.zoltan.gyarmati@gmail.com>]

Dear Arnout&All,

On 01/28/2018 11:27 PM, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote:
>
> On 24-01-18 23:28, Zoltan Gyarmati wrote:
>> Dear All,
>>
>> I'm looking into this autobuild error:
>>
>> http://autobuild.buildroot.net/results/3c537e1260dc9ce57657ca0d49e318a10aee111e/
>>
>> where the qjson build fails because the moc_* files are generated with
>> an old version of moc.
>> It turned out that Qt4 and Qt5 are both enabled in this autobuild
>> config, and Qt4 is being built second, so it overwrites moc and qmake in
>> the host dir.
>> I remembered that Qt4 at Qt5 used to be mutually exclusive (by setting
>> "depends on !BR2_PACKAGE_QT" in package/qt5/Config.in) so I looked
>> further and it turned that BR2_PACKAGE_QT5 is enabled because
>> BR2_PACKAGE_PINENTRY_QT5 is enabled and it selects BR2_PACKAGE_QT5.
>>
>> What is the preferred way to fix this?
>>
>> a) Add also the "depends !BR2_PACKAGE_QT" guard to the
>> BR2_PACKAGE_PINENTRY_QT5 config entry?
>  That indeed would be the proper thing to do.

Thanks, gonna send in a patch
>
>
>> b) Inverse the dependency and enable BR2_PACKAGE_PINENTRY_QT5 only if
>> BR2_PACKAGE_QT5 was enabled, rather then letting
>> BR2_PACKAGE_PINENTRY_QT5 select BR2_PACKAGE_QT5). (and same logic for
>> BR2_PACKAGE_PINENTRY_QT4)
>  I guess here select was chosen rather than depends because you need to be able
> to choose one of them, so for one of them you want to have a select. Anyway
> there are other packages using qt4/5 that use select.
>
>
>  Regards,
>  Arnout
>
>> c) other?
>>
>>
>> I would vote for option b) as it would be more consistent with the other
>> Qt based packages' (like qtjson itself) config, but wanted to ask before
>> sending in a patch.
>>
>> Thanks, regards
>>
>>
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Zoltan Gyarmati
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