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    I started a set of projects with Qt Creator and they did not use relative paths to the build output directory. Is there a way to use relative pathing to the given project for build output?

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      (I'm assuming you are using qmake here)
      Yes, just set DESTDIR, OUTDIR, MOC_DIR, RCC_DIR to some relative path, disable shadow building and you are done.

      Or just disable shadow building - it will build in PWD then.

      (Z(:^

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