There are several questions on SO regarding how to create a pre-build step for qmake, I can do that with this in my .pro file:

versionTarget.target = ../VersionData/versioning.h
versionTarget.depends = FORCE
win32: versionTarget.commands = cd $$PWD; python.exe ./version_getter.py -p $$TARGET
else:  versionTarget.commands = cd $$PWD; python ./version_getter.py -p $$TARGET

PRE_TARGETDEPS += ../VersionData/versioning.h
QMAKE_EXTRA_TARGETS += versionTarget

Now, the problem is that this approach is not a build step per se but just another build target, so if I have the -j flag configured for make it runs my script in parallel with the other build jobs. This is very bad, because my script creates/updates a header file - having it change part way through the compilation is not acceptable.

So, is there anyway I can have this script executed before any compilation is ran? I know I can create another script and call the version_getter.py and qmake in sequence from that, but this is not desirable as I would have to compile from the command line rather than from within Qt Creator.

Update

The complete .pri file that is included by every one of my sub-projects is below:

CONFIG += thread
QT += core \
      gui

versionTarget.target = ../VersionData/versioning.h
versionTarget.depends = FORCE
win32: versionTarget.commands = cd $$PWD; python.exe ./version_getter.py -p $$TARGET
else:  versionTarget.commands = cd $$PWD; python ./version_getter.py -p $$TARGET

PRE_TARGETDEPS += ../VersionData/versioning.h
QMAKE_EXTRA_TARGETS += versionTarget

DEPENDPATH += ../VersionData
INCLUDEPATH += ../VersionData
HEADERS += ../VersionData/versioning.h

UI_HEADERS_DIR = $${_PRO_FILE_PWD_}/include/Qui
DESTDIR = $(SYREN_PATH)

!win32-msvc {
    QMAKE_CXXFLAGS += -std=c++0x
}

But this still r

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