Qt Creator is poluting my nice clear build results window with a complaint
that my build directory is not on the same level of the filesystem as my source
directory. It's a new complaint even though I've been using Qt Creator for ages,
because I recently had to re-oganize my work a little. I have, for a long time,
used a layout where by source, build, and distribution directories for each
project are sub-directories
of $HOME/source, $HOME/build,
and $HOME/dist which actually meets Qt's strange requirement.1
Alas IT issued a new edict concerning the centalized backup system and on windows
I've been forced to move my source hierarchy to
$HOME/Documents/source on that platform. Which broke QT's little
brain.
The policy is, presumably, intended to enfore a prefernce for out-of-source build, which is a good idea (every build should be out of source). But it is also way, way too restrictive a way to enforece that behavior.
1 This lets be share the source directory across the Windows host, several WSL linux installations, and the few VMs I still run while each platform maintains it's own build and distribution locations.
