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authorOswald Buddenhagen <oswald.buddenhagen@qt.io>2018-10-08 18:17:26 +0200
committerLiang Qi <liang.qi@qt.io>2018-10-12 18:06:49 +0000
commit473d9a5fc763d114fbfa1c0d2b5f8d03cab6e972 (patch)
tree64dc4744d8260ec3edcd05a7d151b318ce690749 /qmake/doc
parent342b13944c8b4210ab44760dad9ab289e2a89499 (diff)
qmake: fix the precedence of QMAKE_LIBDIR_POSTv5.12.0-beta2
it must end up in front of QMAKE_LIBS{,_PRIVATE}, but not of LIBS{,_PRIVATE} (which are preceded by QMAKE_LIBDIR). Task-number: QTBUG-61982 Started-by: Liang Qi <liang.qi@qt.io> Change-Id: Id3de01ee0e9b66af02f79949aeb5a0eabd55363f Reviewed-by: Liang Qi <liang.qi@qt.io> Reviewed-by: Simon Hausmann <simon.hausmann@qt.io>
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-rw-r--r--qmake/doc/src/qmake-manual.qdoc14
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/qmake/doc/src/qmake-manual.qdoc b/qmake/doc/src/qmake-manual.qdoc
index d4b2f2a07b..7fd9dd9623 100644
--- a/qmake/doc/src/qmake-manual.qdoc
+++ b/qmake/doc/src/qmake-manual.qdoc
@@ -2061,7 +2061,19 @@
\section1 QMAKE_LIBDIR
- Specifies a list of system library paths.
+ Specifies a list of library search paths for all projects.
+ The value of this variable is typically handled by qmake
+ or \l{#QMAKESPEC}{qmake.conf} and rarely needs to be modified.
+
+ To specify additional search paths in project files,
+ use \l LIBS like that, instead:
+ \badcode
+ LIBS += -L/path/to/libraries
+ \endcode
+
+ \section1 QMAKE_LIBDIR_POST
+
+ Specifies a list of system library search paths for all projects.
The value of this variable is typically handled by qmake
or \l{#QMAKESPEC}{qmake.conf} and rarely needs to be modified.