From the documentation:
<pre> TARGET This specifies the name of the target file. For example: TEMPLATE = app TARGET = myapp SOURCES = main.cpp The project file above would produce an executable named myapp on unix and 'myapp.exe' on windows. </pre>
I checked the makefile, no changes, but TARGET should not be empty IMHO.
Won't hurt, but not sure what the effect is, if nothing observable happens...
The effect is we don't have an empty field there ;).
Automatic sanity-testing: PASSED, see http://jenkins.bluematt.me/pull-tester/6fe375c3bd558cc257e72c04ac5d94dc86be4a19 for binaries and test log.
I'm not seeing much of an advantage here either. But I suppose it's good to be explicit (especially as the target name is overridden later for MACOSX).