[Qt-creator] bug: Creator crashes on pro file with an include generated by system()

[Ilkka Laukkanen]

Hi,

I think I've found a bug with Qt Creator. In our project we use the same
trick as (I think) qmake uses in it's makespecs: a common library
package installs a .pri file containing common definitions like plugin
install paths. Other packages that depend on this common package then
include that .pri file in their .pro files. The location of the .pri
file is made available via pkg-config.

In the .pro files of the dependent packages, the .pri file is read like
this:

  include($$system(pkg-config common-package --variable=common-pri))

With qmake, this works fine. However, Qt Creator gets stuck in a loop
trying to read that project file. I've created a small test project that
demonstrates this problem, it uses echo instead of pkg-config but the
effect is the same. The project is attached.

The system is an x86 Ubuntu 8.10, Qt version 4.5 (kinetic-animations git
branch). Creator is built from the git repo, rev
017e213b243cd7cf4cb9915a41af49d24f3b5f04 with the same Qt version.


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Best regards,

Ilkka Laukkanen
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