[Qt-creator] Control where the compiled object files go?

[Andre Poenitz]

On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 02:18:10PM -0500, Stephen Chu wrote:
> Thanks for the pointer. I read the doc several times and still don't 
> understand what it means or why it needs to be that way.
> 
> If debug and release are mutually exclusive, why do we need to define 
> the set of values? Isn't there only one value between the 2 left in 
> CONFIG? If debug and release are both in CONFIG, what does setting the 
> value set help?

They are not really exclusive. debug_and_release is a "third" state,
resultung in both debug and release scopes being "true" and a different
default layout of the build directories.

> I know what to do to get it right now (always add the second parameter 
> when testing for debug/release) but the doc really is absolutely of no 
> help. :)

I agree that qmake syntax is neither self-explaining nor clearly
documented. There are part one just has to learn by heart ;-}

Andre'