[Development] Qtsystems throwing build error - Need to discuss the workaround

Joerg Bornemann joerg.bornemann at qt.io
Wed Sep 22 12:01:13 CEST 2021


On 9/22/21 11:30 AM, Rasool, Ansar wrote:

> I am trying to build qtsystems 5.15.1 on my Ubuntu 18.04 host but it 
> throws build error for first time. Error is given below:
...
> from the build logs, it seems that the qml-inputinfo.pro file tries to 
> installs the qml-inputinfo.qml app multiple times during single build. 
> For first time, it succeeds however for second time it throws the error 
> of Destination file exists because it had already copied it previously.
> Any help in this regard would be highly appreciable.

The mentioned .pro file looks correct.

Not exactly sure what's happening there. You could try to turn off 
building examples by passing QT_BUILD_PARTS-=examples to your qmake call.


Cheers,

Joerg


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