Changeset 258 for trunk/README.OS2

Timestamp:

Oct 27, 2009, 11:05:01 PM (16 years ago)

Author:

Dmitry A. Kuminov

Message:

README.OS2: Mention MAKESHELL and ask to remove references to any other Watcom or OpenWatcom installations when building Qt.

File:

• trunk/README.OS2 (modified) (1 diff)

trunk/README.OS2

@@ -43 +43 @@
 
   - Make sure CMD.EXE is your command line processor (the generated makefiles
-    will rely on its 'copy', 'if' and other commands).
+    will rely on its 'copy', 'if' and other commands). If you have a Unix shell
+    (SH.EXE) in your environment, you may need to force GNU make to use CMD.EXE
+    by doing 'set MAKESHELL=C:\OS2\CMD.EXE' where C: is your boot drive.
 
   - set LIBRARY_PATH=C:\OS2\DLL;C:\MPTN\DLL where C: is your boot drive.
+
+  - Make sure that there are no traces of any other Watcom or OpenWatcom
+    installation in the environment where you build Qt as it will most likely
+    interfere with the patched OpenWatcom linker we use. This basically means
+    removing all *WATCOM* environment variables and removing references to those
+    Watcom installations from PATH.
 
 Note that the QTDIR environment variable used by previous Qt versions is not