[Qbs] Fun With Flags

Christian Kandeler christian.kandeler at qt.io
Thu Jan 15 09:56:51 CET 2026


On 1/14/26 5:54 PM, Jochen Becher wrote:
> If you copy this into test.qbs and run qbs it installs test.qbs into install-root/testfiles. That is not what I expect.
Qbs creates an artifact for the product's project file (tagged "qbs"), 
in case the user wants to process it in some way. You request that all 
files in the product get installed (which is something you almost never 
want, by the way). Therefore, the file gets installed. So nothing 
unusual there, in my opinion.


Christian


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