building only qmake?

[akos.maroy]

Since QMake is such a major tool in Qt, I would imagine that just "configure" would actually build QMake, as it's required to build the makefiles used for the examples and demos.

hm, that is actually true. but 'installing' qmake, so that it also finds the spec files - is that special in some way?

[squidge]

I don't think so, it embeds the base directory it was built from and uses that to find the specs. I noticed that when I built a Qt dist and then renamed the directory afterwards - everything stopped working (couldn't find the mkspecs file) until I renamed it back.

[wysota]

You can run make install_mkspecs, if you want. But you can just copy the mkspecs directory yourself.