what is make qmake?

[Pushpa Kumari K.H]

Hi All,

I am usinq qt 3.3.7 with hp-ux 11.11 and aCC 3.7 in my application and following a document for installation of my application. There are 3 steps in installation :

qmake bviewng.pro
make qmake
make

Finally my application should get installed.
I got to know about 'qmake bviewn.pro' - it is used to generate Makefile, I didn't get to know why we are using make qmake, Could you please tell me about that.

[Brandybuck]

The "make qmake" step seems strange. "qmake" is not normally a target for make. Typical command sequence to build is:

qmake project.pro
make

[Pushpa Kumari K.H]

When we do "make qmake" all the Makefile's in subdirectories are created by their corresponding .pro's and finally the two options get merged like :
This
-D__STRICT_ANSI__ -D_HPUX_SOURCE

will be merged to
-D__STRICT_ANSI__D_HPUX_SOURCE

which will have some problems while doing the final make of the application.
Could you please suggest me for this.

[Pushpa Kumari K.H]

I got to know abt dat, we need to check qmake.conf file

[Brandybuck]

Could you please suggest me for this.
My suggestion is to not use "make qmake". It is not necessary.