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+# Copyright (C) 2025, Digi International Inc.
+
+# The native and nativesdk versions of this recipe automatically pull in a
+# clang dependency as soon as meta-clang is included in the bblayers. Change
+# this so that the dependency only gets added when explicitly setting TOOLCHAIN
+# to clang.
+QTTOOLS_USE_CLANG = ""
+
+# This check is copied as-is from meta-qt6
+QTTOOLS_USE_CLANG:toolchain-clang = "${@ 'clang' if bb.utils.vercmp_string_op(d.getVar('LLVMVERSION') or '', '17', '>') else ''}"