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authorRobin Burchell <robin.burchell@collabora.co.uk>2011-01-17 12:31:44 (GMT)
committerOswald Buddenhagen <oswald.buddenhagen@nokia.com>2011-01-17 12:31:44 (GMT)
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Add packagesExist() function to qmake.
This can be used to detect whether or not a given (set of) packages exist, which can be useful for compiling in or our extra functionality at build time. Merge-request: 1022 Reviewed-by: Oswald Buddenhagen <oswald.buddenhagen@nokia.com>
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-rw-r--r--doc/src/development/qmake-manual.qdoc13
-rw-r--r--doc/src/snippets/code/doc_src_qmake-manual.qdoc12
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diff --git a/doc/src/development/qmake-manual.qdoc b/doc/src/development/qmake-manual.qdoc
index d7a48a3..b6270d5 100644
--- a/doc/src/development/qmake-manual.qdoc
+++ b/doc/src/development/qmake-manual.qdoc
@@ -3397,6 +3397,19 @@
\tableofcontents{2}
+ \section1 packagesExist(packages)
+
+ Uses the PKGCONFIG mechanism to determine whether or not the given packages
+ exist at the time of project parsing.
+
+ This can be useful to optionally enable or disable features. For example:
+
+ \snippet doc/src/snippets/code/doc_src_qmake-manual.qdoc 157
+
+ And then, in the code:
+
+ \snippet doc/src/snippets/code/doc_src_qmake-manual.qdoc 158
+
\section1 basename(variablename)
Returns the basename of the file specified. For example:
diff --git a/doc/src/snippets/code/doc_src_qmake-manual.qdoc b/doc/src/snippets/code/doc_src_qmake-manual.qdoc
index ab67a3d..ec35a52 100644
--- a/doc/src/snippets/code/doc_src_qmake-manual.qdoc
+++ b/doc/src/snippets/code/doc_src_qmake-manual.qdoc
@@ -1029,3 +1029,15 @@ DEPLOYMENT += dep_note
//! [156]
DEPLOYMENT.display_name = My Qt App
//! [156]
+
+//! [157]
+packagesExist(sqlite3 QtNetwork QtDeclarative) {
+ DEFINES += USE_FANCY_UI
+}
+//! [157]
+
+//! [158]
+#ifdef USE_FANCY_UI
+ // Use the fancy UI, as we have extra packages available
+#endif
+//! [158]