Re: [Mingw-cross-env-list] i686-pc-mingw32-qmake does not exist anymore?

[Mark Brand]

On Sunday 02 June 2013 01:54:59 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> On 02/06/13 01:49, Mark Brand wrote:
> > On Sunday 02 June 2013 01:19:12 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> >> My MXE installation is very old and I thought I'll give a recent one a
> >> shot.  I've built Qt4 but there's no "i686-pc-mingw32-qmake" executable.
> >> 
> >>    Is this intended?
> > 
> > Yes, because qt (Qt 4) and qt5 each has its own qmake. Just invoke the
> > desired qmake directly or put its bin in your path.
> 
> The docs will probably need to change for this.  It still refers to the
> old name

That's already done, but the change is in the master branch, therefore not 
visible on the website which gets its content from index.html in the "stable" 
branch.

> .  Although it might be a good idea to introduce
> i686-pc-mingw32-qmake4 and i686-pc-mingw32-qmake5 symlinks (idea stolen
> from how Gentoo solves the problem in such cases.)

Something like that would be possible, but it would have to consider the new 
multi-target situation. Do you think the added convenience would be worth the 
trouble and complexity?

Mark