Configure -top-level in qt5 configure.bat (unknown option)

Ludwick

Hi there,

today I tried to make a rebuild of the latest qt5 repository.
I did a git pull of the stable branch and then tried to run
configure (under Windows XP).

It turned out, however, that there was always the option "-top-level" added to my other configure options, which resulted in configure not completing: "Unkown option -top-level"

Looking into the file qt5/configure.bat I found this line:
@call %configure% -top-level %*@

Changing it into
@call %configure% %*@

made it possible to complete configure.

But afterwards I have no makefile in my qt5 directory...

What am I missing??

Thanks,
Ludwick

SGaist

Hi,

Did you just call git pull or did you follow this "guide":http://qt-project.org/wiki/Building_Qt_5_from_Git ?

Ludwick

Thanks for the quick reply! :-)

I followed this guide about half a year ago, when I built qt for the first time. Then it all worked fine. So I thought, I could now just "git pull" and run "configure ..." "make" again to have the newest version.

Ludwick

I just checked out a completely fresh clone of the qt repository (following the quide) and now configure does not complain about the -top-level option:

New checkout:

D:\qt5-new>configure -help

cd qtbase
D:\qt5-new\qtbase\configure.bat -top-level -help
Please wait while bootstrapping configure ...
<srcbase> = D:/qt5-new/qtbase
<outbase> = D:/qt5-new/qtbase
mingw32-make: '../../configure.exe' is up to date.
Usage: configure [options]

However, my original checkout:

D:\qt5>configure -help

cd qtbase
D:\qt5\qtbase\configure.bat -top-level -help
Please wait while bootstrapping configure ...
<srcbase> = D:/qt5/qtbase
<outbase> = D:/qt5/qtbase
mingw32-make: '../../configure.exe' is up to date.
Unknown option -top-level
Usage: configure [options]

The files in the root directories of D:/qt5/ and D:/qt5-new/ are identical. What could be the cause for -top-level not being accepted by the former?

SGaist

Did you pull only qt5 ? Or did you also do it in the modules ?

Ludwick

I did just "git pull" in the qt5 root-directory; assuming it would update all subdirecotires recursively.

I have to admit that I'm not very familiar with the concept of submodules in git. As a matter of fact, "git status" still shows me that the submodules are modfied and "git reset" does not change this.

How should I have done the pull on all submodules, too?

SGaist

You can use qt5_tools from the qtrepotools