CMake: Fix handling of CMAKE_FIND_ROOT_PATH and CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH

While trying to implement the 'host artifact reuse' Coin instructions
change, a bug surfaced where the qemu configurations didn't find
the host tools and instead tried to use the cross-compiled tools
while building qtbase, which failed due to not finding the
runtime linker (another unsolved issue).
Before the host artifact reuse change, the host tools were found
successfully.

The difference that caused the issue is that the target install prefix
was a direct subfolder of the host prefix.
host - /home/qt/work/qt/install
target - /home/qt/work/qt/install/target

Before the host reuse change the install prefixes were as follows
host - /home/qt/work/qt/install/host
target - /home/qt/work/qt/install/target

While looking for the Qt6CoreTools package, we temporarily set
CMAKE_FIND_ROOT_PATH and CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH to contain first
'/home/qt/work/qt/install' and then '/home/qt/work/qt/install/target'.
CMake then reroots the CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH values onto values in
CMAKE_FIND_ROOT_PATH, making an MxN list of prefixes to search.
Rerooting essentially means concatenating 2 paths, unless the
considered prefix is a subfolder of the root path.

What happened was that the first considered value was
'/home/qt/work/qt/install/home/qt/work/qt/install', a non-existent
location that gets discarded.

The second considered value was '/home/qt/work/qt/install/target.
The second value is the result of seeing that
'/home/qt/work/qt/install/target' is a subfolder of
'/home/qt/work/qt/install' and thus the root path is stripped.

All of this is done in cmFindPackageCommand::FindConfig() ->
cmFindCommon::RerootPaths.

The behavior above caused the target tools be found instead of the
host ones.

Before the host reuse change, both of the initial constructed prefixes
were discared due to them not existing, e.g.
'/home/qt/work/qt/install/target/home/qt/work/qt/install/target'
and '/home/qt/work/qt/install/host/home/qt/work/qt/install/host'

One of the later prefixes combined CMAKE_FIND_ROOT_PATH ==
'/home/qt/work/qt/install/host' + CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH == '/' resulting
in '/home/qt/work/qt/install/host/' and this accidentally found the
host tools package.

We actually stumbled upon this issue a while ago when implementing Qt
5.14 Android CMake support in 52c799ed4425076df4353c02950ea1444fe5f102
That commit message mentions the fix is to add a "lib/cmake"
suffix to the PATHS option of find_package().
This would cause the subfolder => strip root behavior mentioned
above.

So finally the fix.

First, make sure not to append QT_HOST_PATH in the toolchain file,
there shouldn't be any need to do that, give that we temporarily set
it when looking for Tools packages.

Second, recreate the subdir scenario in the Qt toolchain file by
setting CMAKE_FIND_ROOT_PATH to the current (relocated) install
prefix as usual, but also setting CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH to a new value
poining to the CMake directory.
Aka '/home/alex/qt' and '/home/alex/qt/lib/cmake'.

Third, when a QT_HOST_PATH is given, save 2 paths in the generated Qt
toolchain: QT_HOST_PATH and QT_HOST_PATH_CMAKE_DIR. There are the host
equivalents of the target ones above. Use these values when looking
for host tools in Qt6CoreModuleDependencies.cmake, again facilitaing
the subdir behavior.
Note these are currently absolute paths and are not relocatable.
We'll have to figure out if it's even possible to make the host path
relocatable.

Finally as a cleanup, look for the Qt6HostInfo package in QtSetup
strictly in the given QT_HOST_PATH, so CMake doesn't accidentally find
a system Qt package.

Change-Id: Iefbcfbbcedd35f1c33417ab7e9f44eaf35ff6337
Reviewed-by: Cristian Adam <cristian.adam@qt.io>

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/cmake/qt.toolchain.cmake.in b/cmake/qt.toolchain.cmake.in
index e7af642c05..c4884e9dfa 100644
--- a/cmake/qt.toolchain.cmake.in
+++ b/cmake/qt.toolchain.cmake.in
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 @init_platform@
 
 @init_qt_host_path@
+@init_qt_host_path_cmake_dir@
 
 @init_original_toolchain_file@
 
@@ -27,10 +28,16 @@ get_filename_component(QT_TOOLCHAIN_RELOCATABLE_INSTALL_PREFIX
                        ${CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_DIR}/../@qt_path_from_cmake_config_dir_to_prefix@
                        ABSOLUTE)
 
-list(PREPEND CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH "${QT_TOOLCHAIN_RELOCATABLE_INSTALL_PREFIX}")
+# Compute the path to the installed Qt lib/cmake folder.
+# We assume that the Qt toolchain location is inside the CMake Qt6 package, and thus the directory
+# one level higher is what we're looking for.
+get_filename_component(QT_TOOLCHAIN_RELOCATABLE_CMAKE_DIR "${CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_DIR}/.." ABSOLUTE)
+
+# There's a subdirectory check in cmake's cmFindCommon::RerootPaths() function, that doesn't handle
+# the case of CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH == CMAKE_FIND_ROOT_PATH for a particular pair of entries.
+# Instead of collapsing the search prefix (which is the case when one is a subdir of the other),
+# it concatenates them creating an invalid path. Workaround it by setting the root path to the
+# Qt install prefix, and the prefix path to the lib/cmake subdir.
+list(PREPEND CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH "${QT_TOOLCHAIN_RELOCATABLE_CMAKE_DIR}")
 list(PREPEND CMAKE_FIND_ROOT_PATH "${QT_TOOLCHAIN_RELOCATABLE_INSTALL_PREFIX}")
 
-if(QT_HOST_PATH)
-    list(APPEND CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH "${QT_HOST_PATH}")
-    list(APPEND CMAKE_FIND_ROOT_PATH "${QT_HOST_PATH}")
-endif()