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| author | Oswald Buddenhagen <oswald.buddenhagen@qt.io> | 2017-11-23 13:30:54 +0100 |
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| committer | Oswald Buddenhagen <oswald.buddenhagen@qt.io> | 2017-11-30 20:24:55 +0000 |
| commit | 6c75857c20972f0d65fc7d556b9dcd81e21060db (patch) | |
| tree | 9df74e460207a5c7700b5db42f7bc225686af8f8 /config_help.txt | |
| parent | 0f1b8fd2dcd2db698095a54ca9beff7e27cf1ceb (diff) | |
configure: mention quoting requirements in the help text
Change-Id: Id79548b8458dfa25fef17cb25688738bb719e7c5
Reviewed-by: Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'config_help.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | config_help.txt | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/config_help.txt b/config_help.txt index 6b1401c618..003752dbe7 100644 --- a/config_help.txt +++ b/config_help.txt @@ -9,6 +9,12 @@ ICU_PREFIX=/opt/icu42 ICU_LIBS="-licui18n -licuuc -licudata". It is also possible to manipulate any QMAKE_* variable, to amend the values from the mkspec for the build of Qt itself, e.g., QMAKE_CXXFLAGS+=-g3. +Note that the *_LIBS* and QMAKE_* assignments manipulate lists, so items +containing meta characters (spaces in particular) need to be quoted according +to qmake rules. On top of that, the assignments as a whole need to be quoted +according to shell rules. It is recommended to use single quotes for the inner +quoting and double quotes for the outer quoting. + Top-level installation directories: -prefix <dir> ...... The deployment directory, as seen on the target device. [/usr/local/Qt-$QT_VERSION, $PWD if -developer-build] |