On 07/29/2018 07:11 PM, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote:
> Adrian: I have just remembered that there is actually a case in which 
> building 
> documentation can be rightfully in a binary build: when it's embedded in the 
> application itself by using Qt's resources system. That's definitely not a 
> bug, and those apps will surely FTBFS.

>From what I remember from my times of professional Qt development, I'm pretty
sure that even those resource files are generated as separate files. I don't
remember anything actually compiled into the resulting binary. All those
resource files were always separate.

> I don't have the least idea of the number of apps that might be using that 
> mechanism though.

Do you have a link on that? I have my doubts that it's actually not possible
to separate the QDoc building from compiling the actual C++ code.

Adrian

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