From ba30932cdf8ce483f65c840c585840071a59475f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joerg Bornemann <joerg.bornemann@qt.io>
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2024 16:24:27 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] configure: Add note how to set CMake variable to help output

It seemed to be common, yet undocumented knowledge how to pass CMake
variables to configure / qt-configure-module.

Task-number: QTBUG-128424
Change-Id: I10e896402aa0a9e1add8746765bfcea955417ee1
Reviewed-by: Alexandru Croitor <alexandru.croitor@qt.io>
(cherry picked from commit 13e096b49ecd7d77ba8b43ee8ff58f7db05d9f6e)
Reviewed-by: Qt Cherry-pick Bot <cherrypick_bot@qt-project.org>
---
 config_help.txt | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/config_help.txt b/config_help.txt
index 276cb550231..ca7745c3285 100644
--- a/config_help.txt
+++ b/config_help.txt
@@ -3,6 +3,9 @@ Usage:  configure [options] [-- cmake-options]
 This is a convenience script for configuring Qt with CMake.
 Options after the double dash are directly passed to CMake.
 
+Configure understands variable assignments like VAR=value on the command line.
+These are passed to CMake as -DVAR=value.
+
 Top-level installation directories:
   -prefix <dir> ...... The deployment directory, as seen on the target device.
                        [/usr/local/Qt-$QT_VERSION; qtbase build directory if