Hennadii Stepanov

> > Also there is a non-technical/social benefit. Over time, the Autotools community shrinks, but CMake community grows. New contributors, who join this project in the future, will readily support...

@luke-jr > Concept NACK. Our autotools build system is a mess, but this doesn't appear to significantly improve it. I don't think the benefits are worth the costs. And this...

@dongcarl @fanquake @ryanofsky @theuni Your conceptual assessments of this PR will be much appreciated.

> > There are open-source projects which have dropped Autotools, and there are no ones which do the opposite. > > "No ones"? There are lots which adopt autotools. Otherwise...

> pkg-config support was fixed in Qt 6.2.5. Not for [static](https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt/qtbase/+/381127) builds: > Although it has some limitations, with qt_internal_add_qml_module if it specifies non-public deps these won't be listed and...

> Static builds are abnormal and only need to be supported for depends-based builds... "abnormal"? We deliver users static builds. > we can trivially patch it I doubt about "trivially"....

> Looking at this list, there's nothing interesting here for anyone that doesn't care about the GUI... The GUI _is_ a part of the Bitcoin Core project. Not caring about...

I've updated the PR description with the following Qt-specific details. ## What happened before? - https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-6-build-system: > CMake is the build system for Qt 6 - https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-and-cmake-the-past-the-present-and-the-future: > We made...

Updated e098ba80b6ec0debc62c32c65b72a518b126ed54 -> 88d797f926cb0d874a30aa732dcc0221f78b007a ([pr25797.04](https://github.com/hebasto/bitcoin/commits/pr25797.04) -> [pr25797.05](https://github.com/hebasto/bitcoin/commits/pr25797.05)): - fixed a bug pointed out in https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/25797#issuecomment-1213486854 - small improvements regarding advanced variables @adam2k > I'm testing on macOS 12.5 M1 MacBook...

Updated 88d797f926cb0d874a30aa732dcc0221f78b007a -> 6e1dcc2ae5096dde327b71efb6bfa0bf120227e5 ([pr25797.05](https://github.com/hebasto/bitcoin/commits/pr25797.05) -> [pr25797.06](https://github.com/hebasto/bitcoin/commits/pr25797.06)): - rebased on top of the #25836 - fixed native building on Windows (MSVC + vcpkg). No longer needed to pre-build Qt :tiger2:...