The following MR in upstream CMake makes sure that the autogen targets depend on the CMakeLists.txt file associated with the autogen target, as well as any files it includes. https://gitlab.kitware.com/cmake/cmake/-/merge_requests/5166 When doing a no-op reconfiguration in the build dir (call 'cmake .') we used file(WRITE) to prepare the contents of a file to be used with configure_file() for creation of a .qrc resource file. Because this file was always rewritten on reconfiguration, its timestamp was newer than then autogen target's timestamp which caused the autogen targets to-be rerun, as well as some compilation and relinking. To avoid this, instead of using file(WRITE) ship a template file next to the Qt6CoreMacros.cmake file, and use it as a template for the qrc configure_file() call. This ensures that a reconfiguration doesn't necessarily rebuild things it shouldn't rebuild. Amends 113f1ad324202ea2b861a3dbdec2ee7ef716c283 Task-number: QTBUG-88004 Change-Id: Icd95b28ca3642434cf21e5c49dcbd1ec65d76252 Reviewed-by: Cristian Adam <cristian.adam@qt.io>