[Qt-creator] Shadow build problems

[Eike Ziller]

On Feb 4, 2010, at 1:41 AM, ext Stephen Chu wrote:

> I tried the shadow build feature and find some problems with it:

Unfortunately these are known issues with qmake:

> 1. If the project folder name has space in it, enabling shadow build 
> will cause moc to fail. It complains that there are too many input files.

qmake has problems with paths with spaces:
http://bugreports.qt.nokia.com/browse/QTBUG-7343

> 
> 2. On Windows, rcc.exe reports that the qrc file does not exist. I think 
> it's given a relative path from the build folder but the working dir is 
> the project dir. Placing the shadow dir next to the project one solves 
> it.

Yeah, we should really give a warning in Qt Creator if you specify a shadow build directory that qmake can't handle.

> 
> A couple of hoops to jump thru but it working now. Just FYI.
> 
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