On Sat, 4 Jul 2020 00:01:15 +0200 Niels Thykier wrote: > Thorsten Glaser: > > Package: libdebhelper-perl > > Version: 13.1 > > Severity: normal > > > > Apparently, dh7 fails to tell qmake the location of the source directory > > when attempting an out-of-tree build: > > > > > > […] > > > > > > The qmake invocation syntax error message is somewhat misleading, > > but looking at the invocation command line it becomes somewhat clearer. > > > > Interesting. I am not sure out of source builds have ever been > supported by qmake (at least not correctly at any rate). If you know > how to do it, then I am happy to look at fixing it.
Qmake does indeed support out of source builds (and for a long time - you can find questions about it on the forums from 2010). You can check a possible implementation of debhelper support for it in MR 125. Regards Jiri Palecek
