diff --git a/src/corelib/Qt6CoreMacros.cmake b/src/corelib/Qt6CoreMacros.cmake
index 567d5f2475..508b58f7ae 100644
--- a/src/corelib/Qt6CoreMacros.cmake
+++ b/src/corelib/Qt6CoreMacros.cmake
@@ -1687,7 +1687,6 @@ function(_qt_internal_process_resource target resourceName)
     string(REPLACE "/" "_" resourceName ${resourceName})
     string(REPLACE "." "_" resourceName ${resourceName})
 
-    set(output_targets "")
     set(resource_files ${rcc_FILES})
     if(NOT "${rcc_BASE}" STREQUAL "")
         get_filename_component(abs_base "${rcc_BASE}" ABSOLUTE)
@@ -1710,11 +1709,10 @@ function(_qt_internal_process_resource target resourceName)
 
     if (NOT resource_files)
         if (rcc_OUTPUT_TARGETS)
-            set(${rcc_OUTPUT_TARGETS} "${output_target_quick}" PARENT_SCOPE)
+            set(${rcc_OUTPUT_TARGETS} "" PARENT_SCOPE)
         endif()
         return()
     endif()
-    list(APPEND output_targets ${output_target_quick})
     set(generatedBaseName "${resourceName}")
     set(generatedResourceFile "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/.rcc/${generatedBaseName}.qrc")
 
@@ -1809,6 +1807,7 @@ function(_qt_internal_process_resource target resourceName)
                        COMMENT "Running rcc for resource ${resourceName}"
                        VERBATIM)
 
+    set(output_targets "")
     if(isBinary)
         # Add generated .rcc target to 'all' set
         add_custom_target(binary_resource_${generatedBaseName} ALL DEPENDS "${generatedOutfile}")
@@ -1816,11 +1815,10 @@ function(_qt_internal_process_resource target resourceName)
         set_property(SOURCE "${generatedOutfile}" PROPERTY SKIP_AUTOGEN ON)
         set_property(TARGET ${target} APPEND PROPERTY _qt_generated_qrc_files "${generatedResourceFile}")
 
-        __qt_propagate_generated_resource(${target} ${resourceName} "${generatedOutfile}" output_target)
-        list(APPEND output_targets ${output_target})
-        if (rcc_OUTPUT_TARGETS)
-            set(${rcc_OUTPUT_TARGETS} "${output_targets}" PARENT_SCOPE)
-        endif()
+        __qt_propagate_generated_resource(${target} ${resourceName} "${generatedOutfile}" output_targets)
+    endif()
+    if (rcc_OUTPUT_TARGETS)
+        set(${rcc_OUTPUT_TARGETS} "${output_targets}" PARENT_SCOPE)
     endif()
 endfunction()