Windows: Avoid syncqt needlessly re-generating headers

Normalize newlines so that headers on Windows are not
always treated as outdated.

This amends 108fb2f1973f191.

Task-number: QTBUG-86121
Change-Id: I46ddb3c5b42852bff75fd56ca224c555ac0bae94
Reviewed-by: Joerg Bornemann <joerg.bornemann@qt.io>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/bin/syncqt.pl b/bin/syncqt.pl
index c472ab5a12..3c8ccf9374 100755
--- a/bin/syncqt.pl
+++ b/bin/syncqt.pl
@@ -435,8 +435,9 @@ sub syncHeader {
     # If remove_stale option is on, make sure to overwrite the
     # forwarding header contents if the file already exists and its
     # content is different from what we will generate.
-    if ($remove_stale) {
+    if ($forwarding_header_exists && $remove_stale) {
         my $existing_forwarding_header_content = fileContents($header);
+        $existing_forwarding_header_content =~ s/\r//g; # remove \r's , so comparison is ok on all platforms
         my $header_content_is_different =
            $new_forwarding_header_content ne $existing_forwarding_header_content;
         $update_forwarding_header ||= $header_content_is_different;