Qt Creator - Use Relative Path

DESCRIPTION

Qt Creator doesn’t seem to be using Relative paths.

I am on Kubuntu 20.10.

I have Qt Creator 4.14.2, it says based on Qt 5.15.2 (GCC 7.3.1 20180303 (Red Hat 7.3.1-5), 64 bit)

My account is in

/home/john

and my projects are in

/home/john/qt-workspace/MyProject

In my project, on the left side, I click on the Projects button. It has a wrench icon on it.

The build directory is

/home/john/qt-workspace/MyProject/build-MyProject-Desktop_Qt_5_9_9_GCC_64bit-Debug

Then, I copied the MyProjects folder to my other profile = Jake

/home/jake

When I open Qt Creator, when I open my project

The build directory is still

/home/john/qt-workspace/MyProject/build-MyProject-Desktop_Qt_5_9_9_GCC_64bit-Debug

^^^^^Notice the john

This is bad.

The issue is in file

MyProject.pro.user

it has lines such as

<value type="QString" key="ProjectExplorer.BuildConfiguration.BuildDirectory">/home/john/qt-workspace/MyProject/build-MyProject-Desktop_Qt_5_9_9_GCC_64bit-Debug</value>

and a few other lines, all of them are using full paths.

Deleting the file

MyProject.pro.user

and opening the Project brings other minor issues that I don’t like.

The PRO FILE?

I looked at the MyProject.pro file. It is using relative paths. <====That is good. That is very very good.