Bug#1025663: qmake6: how should users query for QT_INSTALL_PLUGINS?

[Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer <perezmeyer@gmail.com>]

Hi,

On Mon, 26 Dec 2022 at 20:07, Helmut Grohne <helmut@subdivi.de> wrote:
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> In any case, I've attached a patch for it now. It is based on what we do
> for qt5.

Thanks!

> I caution though that selecting version 5 or 6 is kinda messed up. If
> you run qmake6 or <triplet>-qmake6, it'll use qt6 as expected. If you
> run plain qmake, it'll go through qtchooser and select the relevant
> version via QT_SELECT. Howeve, <triplet>-qmake is presently owned by
> qt5-qmake only and will bypass qtchoser without honouring QT_SELECT. If
> we want "QT_SELECT=6 <triplet>-qmake" to run the cross qt6 qmake, we'll
> also have to modify qtchooser and qt5-qmake.

We don't want to mix qtchooser and Qt 6. qtchooser is currently
deprecated and will disappear with Qt 5. It's not worth the effort to
remove it right now (I think). so the current behavior makes sense.

Thanks!




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