diff --git a/tests/manual/gdbdebugger/simple/app/app.pro b/tests/manual/gdbdebugger/simple/app/app.pro
deleted file mode 100644
index e991a3dba4ecdd8835358357ddf52b9ad66b21a9..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/tests/manual/gdbdebugger/simple/app/app.pro
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-TEMPLATE = app
-TARGET = debuggertest
-DEPENDPATH += .
-INCLUDEPATH += .
-DESTDIR = ..
-
-# Input
-SOURCES += ../app.cpp
-
-# SOURCES += ../../../../../share/qtcreator/gdbmacros/gdbmacros.cpp
-QT += network
-message("this says <foo & bar>")
diff --git a/tests/manual/gdbdebugger/simple/plugin.pro b/tests/manual/gdbdebugger/simple/plugin.pro
index 911dc2481e2273abd34932be98486662dd602d7f..5ab176dd3e5635aaa68fd79aaa9d3340166109aa 100644
--- a/tests/manual/gdbdebugger/simple/plugin.pro
+++ b/tests/manual/gdbdebugger/simple/plugin.pro
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 TEMPLATE = lib
 TARGET = plugin
-DESTDIR = ..
+DESTDIR = .
 CONFIG += shared
 
-SOURCES += ../plugin.cpp
+SOURCES += plugin.cpp
 
 macx {
    QMAKE_LFLAGS_SONAME = -Wl,-install_name,@executable_path/../PlugIns/$${PROVIDER}/
diff --git a/tests/manual/gdbdebugger/simple/plugin/plugin.pro b/tests/manual/gdbdebugger/simple/plugin/plugin.pro
deleted file mode 100644
index 911dc2481e2273abd34932be98486662dd602d7f..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/tests/manual/gdbdebugger/simple/plugin/plugin.pro
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
-TEMPLATE = lib
-TARGET = plugin
-DESTDIR = ..
-CONFIG += shared
-
-SOURCES += ../plugin.cpp
-
-macx {
-   QMAKE_LFLAGS_SONAME = -Wl,-install_name,@executable_path/../PlugIns/$${PROVIDER}/
-} else:linux-* {
-    #do the rpath by hand since it's not possible to use ORIGIN in QMAKE_RPATHDIR
-    QMAKE_RPATHDIR += \$\$ORIGIN/..
-    IDE_PLUGIN_RPATH = $$join(QMAKE_RPATHDIR, ":")
-    QMAKE_LFLAGS += -Wl,-z,origin \'-Wl,-rpath,$${IDE_PLUGIN_RPATH}\'
-    QMAKE_RPATHDIR =
-}
-
-
diff --git a/tests/manual/gdbdebugger/simple/simple.pro b/tests/manual/gdbdebugger/simple/simple.pro
index 78c70731cd455453d191c3160f3d2812b69c2001..d56bf7fbe9cc733b356958141de28e447949facd 100644
--- a/tests/manual/gdbdebugger/simple/simple.pro
+++ b/tests/manual/gdbdebugger/simple/simple.pro
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 
 TEMPLATE = subdirs
 
-SUBDIRS += app plugin
+SUBDIRS += app.pro plugin.pro