configure.exe not honoring QMAKESPEC?

[akos.maroy]

Your qt-installation isn't much more than an application.

I'm not sure what you mean

I have Qt installed somewhere, and I have my projects, several of them, depending on qmake & some on the Qt libs. I wouldn't want to hard-code the locaiton of Qt into any of my own projects, as the location differs between development systems and of course between platforms as well.

The installer is modifying the shared libs afaik.

I see... I searched all the files in the directory structure for the path that is supposedly 'burned in', but didn't find it anywhere. so if it is, it's not stored as a plain string.

Is there a way to re-create the Qt windows installer?