Qt Creator is messing with "Default Build Directory" setting?

Robert Hairgrove

I'm not sure why, but this used to be working:

In my global preferences, I have defined the "Default Build Directory" as follows:

../build/%{ActiveProject:Name}/%{Qt:Version}/%{BuildConfig:Name}

The project is a TEMPLATE=subdirs project using qmake, and the project file is SBBL.pro. The project is structured like this:

SBBL_DEV
├── SBBL_APP
│   ├── 3rd_party
│   ├── app
│   ├──── include
│   ├──── src
│   ├──── SBBL.pro
│   ├──── App.pro
│   ├──── Libs.pro
(etc.)

Since I have things under app and 3rd_party under source code management (Fossil) in two different repositories, the idea is that when I build the project, the artifacts will stay outside of the folders which are under Fossil SCM, i.e.:

SBBL_DEV
├── SBBL_APP
│   ├── 3rd_party
│   ├── app
│   ├── build
│   ├──── SBBL
│   ├────── 6.11.0
│   ├──────── Debug
│   ├──────── Release
│   ├── libs
(etc.)

When I open the project and examine the value of %{ActiveProject:Name}, this is SBBL as it should be. However, when I try to configure the project's kits, they all show build paths like this, e.g.:

[...]/SBBL_DEV/SBBL_APP/build/6.11.0/Debug
[...]/SBBL_DEV/SBBL_APP/build/6.11.0/Release
[...]/SBBL_DEV/SBBL_APP/build/6.11.0/Profile

The "SBBL" subfolder is missing!

As I said, this used to be working correctly. Am I missing something?

Robert Hairgrove

I fixed this by replacing "%{ActiveProject:Name}" with just "%{Project:Name}".

But how does one know the difference? In the list of variable replacements, they both resolve to "SBBL". Does this have to do with the "TEMPLATE=subdirs" setting?