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authorLeena Miettinen <riitta-leena.miettinen@qt.io>2019-09-04 17:37:25 +0200
committerLeena Miettinen <riitta-leena.miettinen@qt.io>2019-09-12 08:34:27 +0000
commit31e00882230165f4d7293d59bac2386967900a85 (patch)
tree38a82e2582a8b3c6704156602a4ac8624d0838ca
parenta21df46481f580d0f74b5f82f3f3ce1df2445129 (diff)
downloadqt-creator-31e00882230165f4d7293d59bac2386967900a85.tar.gz
Doc: Make description of "Rebuild" function apply to all build systems
It claimed that qmake is always run, which is incorrect for CMake and Qbs. Change-Id: I80f72d750a02a16b26514bb868f1d0f64124ef56 Reviewed-by: Mitch Curtis <mitch.curtis@qt.io> Reviewed-by: Tobias Hunger <tobias.hunger@qt.io>
-rw-r--r--doc/src/projects/creator-only/creator-projects-building.qdoc9
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/projects/creator-only/creator-projects-building.qdoc b/doc/src/projects/creator-only/creator-projects-building.qdoc
index 774040fb4d..ea9bc1d230 100644
--- a/doc/src/projects/creator-only/creator-projects-building.qdoc
+++ b/doc/src/projects/creator-only/creator-projects-building.qdoc
@@ -79,9 +79,10 @@
subproject.
To remove all build artifacts, select \uicontrol Build > \uicontrol {Clean All} or
- \uicontrol {Clean Project}. To clean the build directory, run qmake, and
- then build the project, select \uicontrol Build > \uicontrol {Rebuild All}
- or \uicontrol {Rebuild Project}.
+ \uicontrol {Clean Project}. To clean the build directory and then build
+ the project, select \uicontrol Build > \uicontrol {Rebuild All} or
+ \uicontrol {Rebuild Project}. If you use qmake, rebuilding also runs qmake
+ to generate new Makefiles between cleaning and building.
To build and clean projects without dependencies, select the
\uicontrol {Build Without Dependencies},
@@ -89,6 +90,8 @@
\uicontrol {Clean Without Dependencies} options in the context menu in the
\uicontrol Projects view.
+ \section1 Additional qmake Options
+
To run qmake to generate new Makefiles, select \uicontrol Build >
\uicontrol qmake. To prevent failures on incremental builds, it might make
sense to always run qmake before building, even though it means that