Re: [Mingw-cross-env-list] [patch] fix for building Qt on Mac with "-arch windows"

[Mark Brand]

> > > > It's possible that the solution will expose new issues, so please try it
> > > > before applying! :)
> > > With those changes, CFG_MAC_ARCHS remains unset, so the build fails
> > > later on with some byte order/endian error messages (log attached).
> > >
> > > I'll try to have another look at it tonight, I'm curious to see what
> > > "-arch windows" does on other systems. If it gets silently ignored, we
> > > may just be able to remove the configure check for MAC and let it be
> > > passed along.
> > Thanks for trying that. I've looked at your log and it looks like you tried
> > out the Qt 4.7.0-beta1 version. We seem to be making progress.
> >
> > The block at line 5586 in the configure script is where the logic is wrong
> > for PLATFORM_MAC:
> >
> > if [ "$CFG_ENDIAN" = "auto" ]; then
> >     if [ "$PLATFORM_MAC" = "yes" ]; then
> >         true #leave as auto
> >     else
> >         "$unixtests/endian.test" "$XQMAKESPEC" $OPT_VERBOSE "$relpath"
> > "$outpath"
> >         F="$?"
> >         if [ "$F" -eq 0 ]; then
> >             CFG_ENDIAN="Q_LITTLE_ENDIAN"
> >         elif [ "$F" -eq 1 ]; then
> >             CFG_ENDIAN="Q_BIG_ENDIAN"
> >         else
> >             echo
> >             echo "The target system byte order could not be detected!"
> >             echo "Turn on verbose messaging (-v) to see the final report."
> >             echo "You can use the -little-endian or -big-endian switch to"
> >             echo "$0 to continue."
> >             exit 101
> >         fi
> >     fi
> > fi
> >
> > The workaround is probably to add "-little-endian" to the configure options?
> > Would you mind trying that? If it works, I'll patch the configure script
> > too.
> Adding -little-endian does indeed work and allows the build to
> complete and the test program to run.

Excellent. Was that for Qt 4.6.2 or Qt 4.7.0-beta1? Can you check on both?

-Mark