[qt5-base] no absolute paths

[autoantwort]

For #20469

[BillyONeal]

@Neumann-A Are you OK with this?

[Neumann-A]

@Neumann-A Are you OK with this?

yeah but I don't guarantee that the pc files will be useable with that. Especially for static builds the pc files might be wrong or missing stuff.

[Neumann-A]

also there are probably still absolute paths to the winsdk in the qt files.

[BillyONeal]

yeah but I don't guarantee that the pc files will be useable with that. Especially for static builds the pc files might be wrong or missing stuff.

Do you think it's worth a shot anyway?

also there are probably still absolute paths to the winsdk in the qt files.

Probably :(

[Neumann-A]

Do you think it's worth a shot anyway?

You can try but I there is currently nothing testing qt pc files. qmake uses the prl stuff and cmake uses the cmake configs. Only meson/autotools would possibly use pc files for qt.

[wrobelda]

You can try but I there is currently nothing testing qt pc files. qmake uses the prl stuff and cmake uses the cmake configs. Only meson/autotools would possibly use pc files for qt.

I assume the #14225 issue still stands, so they will remain unusable anyway.

[Neumann-A]

I assume the #14225 issue still stands, so they will remain unusable anyway.

unless you use a single configuration triplet on osx?

[wrobelda]

unless you use a single configuration triplet on osx?

Well, the only Qt .pc files being installed are those with _debug suffix; there aren't any release copies of them.

EDIT: also, is this specific to macOS only?

[Neumann-A]

Well, the only Qt .pc files being installed are those with _debug suffix; there aren't any release copies of them.

filelist for osx disagrees lib/pkgconfig has qt stuff.

EDIT: also, is this specific to macOS only?

windows: no pkgconfig files
linux: normal pkgconfig installation no _debug suffixes.

qt6 doesn't seem to install pkgconfig files at all

[wrobelda]

Well, the only Qt .pc files being installed are those with _debug suffix; there aren't any release copies of them.

filelist for osx disagrees lib/pkgconfig has qt stuff.

That's what I have here:

Qt5Concurrent_debug.pc
Qt5Core_debug.pc
Qt5DBus_debug.pc
Qt5Designer_debug.pc
Qt5Gui_debug.pc
Qt5Help_debug.pc
Qt5MacExtras_debug.pc
Qt5Network_debug.pc
Qt5OpenGLExtensions_debug.pc
Qt5OpenGL_debug.pc
Qt5PrintSupport_debug.pc
Qt5QmlModels_debug.pc
Qt5QmlWorkerScript_debug.pc
Qt5Qml_debug.pc
Qt5QuickTest_debug.pc
Qt5QuickWidgets_debug.pc
Qt5Quick_debug.pc
Qt5Sql_debug.pc
Qt5Svg_debug.pc
Qt5Test_debug.pc
Qt5UiPlugin_debug.pc
Qt5UiTools_debug.pc
Qt5Widgets_debug.pc
Qt5XmlPatterns_debug.pc
Qt5Xml_debug.pc

[Neumann-A]

@wrobelda: CI filelist here: https://dev.azure.com/vcpkg/public/_build/results?buildId=63427&view=artifacts&pathAsName=false&type=publishedArtifacts

[wrobelda]

@wrobelda: CI filelist here: https://dev.azure.com/vcpkg/public/_build/results?buildId=63427&view=artifacts&pathAsName=false&type=publishedArtifacts

Ah, my bad, had my find limited to /debug 🤦🏻‍♂️
Yeah, so in this case, single configuration triplet would work, but that's still suboptimal. Not to mention the fact that Windows build doesn't install any .pc at all, as you mentioned, so enabling Qt in non-CMake ports (like GpgMe) would be platform-dependent.

[autoantwort]

I did this mainly so that microsoft/vcpkg-tool#172 can be merged. Imho this PR is a small improvement over the status quo. My intention was not to fix all pkgconfig issues of Qt

[wrobelda]

I did this mainly so that microsoft/vcpkg-tool#172 can be merged. Imho this PR is a small improvement over the status quo. My intention was not to fix all pkgconfig issues of Qt

Yes, that's fair. We stole your thunder here a bit, our discussion belongs to #14225, sorry for that!

[BillyONeal]

@Neumann-A @wrobelda I was mainly making sure that this wouldn't cause things to break horribly, not necessarily to make sure all pkgconfig ills of qt are fixed. :P From the feedback above this seems safe to merge.

[BillyONeal]

@autoantwort Thanks for the fix!
@Neumann-A @wrobelda Thanks for the review feedback!