diff --git a/common.pri b/common.pri
index 796ca0c5e..9f87d0f62 100644
--- a/common.pri
+++ b/common.pri
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ defineTest(copyToDestdir) {
 
     for(FILE, files) {
         unix{
-            QMAKE_PRE_LINK += ln -s -f $$quote($$FILE) $$quote($$DDIR/$$basename(FILE)) & $$escape_expand(\\n\\t)
+            QMAKE_POST_LINK += ln -s -f $$quote($$FILE) $$quote($$DDIR/$$basename(FILE)) & $$escape_expand(\\n\\t)
         } else {
             !exists($$DDIR/$$basename(FILE)) {
                 # Replace slashes in paths with backslashes for Windows
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ defineTest(forceCopyToDestdir) {
 
     for(FILE, files) {
         unix{
-            QMAKE_PRE_LINK += ln -s -f $$quote($$FILE) $$quote($$DDIR/$$basename(FILE)) & $$escape_expand(\\n\\t)
+            QMAKE_POST_LINK += ln -s -f $$quote($$FILE) $$quote($$DDIR/$$basename(FILE)) & $$escape_expand(\\n\\t)
         } else {
             # Replace slashes in paths with backslashes for Windows
             win32{