[Development] Very slow incremental builds with 5.8

[Mitch Curtis]

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> project.org] On Behalf Of Sean Harmer
> Sent: Friday, 25 November 2016 10:16 AM
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> Subject: [Development] Very slow incremental builds with 5.8
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> what is the reason that when doing incremental builds with the 5.8 branch
> that qmake gets run in each and every subdir please? It *really* slows down
> doing incremental builds. Is there any way to avoid this or can we go back to
> the
> 5.7 behaviour please?

I had a similar problem with Creator: https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTCREATORBUG-16807

Apparently it's better (or fixed?) in 4.2, but I haven't tested it properly yet.
 
> Cheers,
> 
> Sean
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