diff --git a/local/recipes/qt/qtdeclarative/recipe.toml b/local/recipes/qt/qtdeclarative/recipe.toml
index bba5534b1c..15a740d878 100644
--- a/local/recipes/qt/qtdeclarative/recipe.toml
+++ b/local/recipes/qt/qtdeclarative/recipe.toml
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ HOST_BUILD="${COOKBOOK_ROOT}/build/qt-host-build"
 DECL_HOST="${COOKBOOK_ROOT}/build/qt-declarative-host"
 HOST_QTSVG_BUILD="${COOKBOOK_ROOT}/build/qtsvg-host-build"
 source "${COOKBOOK_ROOT}/local/scripts/lib/qt-sysroot.sh"
-source "${COOKBOOK_ROOT}/local/scripts/lib/qt-sysroot.sh"
+redbear_qt_ensure_dep_sysroots "${COOKBOOK_ROOT}" "${COOKBOOK_SYSROOT}"
 
 # ============================================================
 # Step 0: Build host qtsvg into the shared host prefix.
diff --git a/local/scripts/lib/qt-sysroot.sh b/local/scripts/lib/qt-sysroot.sh
index 5c31aa064d..c92cca4a9b 100644
--- a/local/scripts/lib/qt-sysroot.sh
+++ b/local/scripts/lib/qt-sysroot.sh
@@ -146,23 +146,26 @@ redbear_qt_ensure_dep_sysroots() {
     local cmake_dir="${sysroot}/usr/lib/cmake"
     [ -d "${cmake_dir}" ] || cmake_dir="${sysroot}/lib/cmake"
     [ -d "${cmake_dir}" ] || return 0
+    # Qt cmake macros record absolute sysroot paths during build.  When the
+    # cookbook rebuilds a later recipe, the earlier recipe's sysroot may have
+    # been cleaned, leaving dangling references.  We recreate each missing
+    # directory as a symlink to the dependency's own stage.
     grep -roh "${cookbook_root}/local/recipes/[^ \";]*target/x86_64-unknown-redox/sysroot" "${cmake_dir}" 2>/dev/null | sort -u | while read -r dep_sysroot; do
-        local dep_include="${dep_sysroot}/include/QtQml"
-        if [ ! -d "${dep_include}" ]; then
-            if [ -L "${dep_sysroot}/include" ] || [ -e "${dep_sysroot}/include" ]; then
-                rm -rf "${dep_sysroot}/include"
+        local dep_target_dir dep_stage_usr
+        dep_target_dir=$(dirname "${dep_sysroot}")
+        dep_stage_usr="${dep_target_dir}/stage/usr"
+        [ -d "${dep_stage_usr}" ] || continue
+        for qt_dir in include lib metatypes plugins mkspecs modules qml; do
+            if [ -d "${dep_sysroot}/${qt_dir}" ] && [ ! -L "${dep_sysroot}/${qt_dir}" ]; then
+                continue
             fi
-            if [ -L "${dep_sysroot}/lib" ] || [ -e "${dep_sysroot}/lib" ]; then
-                rm -rf "${dep_sysroot}/lib"
+            if [ -L "${dep_sysroot}/${qt_dir}" ] || [ -e "${dep_sysroot}/${qt_dir}" ]; then
+                rm -f "${dep_sysroot}/${qt_dir}"
             fi
-            local dep_target_dir dep_stage_usr
-            dep_target_dir=$(dirname "${dep_sysroot}")
-            dep_stage_usr="${dep_target_dir}/stage/usr"
-            if [ -d "${dep_stage_usr}/include" ]; then
+            if [ -d "${dep_stage_usr}/${qt_dir}" ]; then
                 mkdir -p "${dep_sysroot}"
-                ln -sf "${dep_stage_usr}/include" "${dep_sysroot}/include"
-                ln -sf "${dep_stage_usr}/lib" "${dep_sysroot}/lib"
+                ln -sf "${dep_stage_usr}/${qt_dir}" "${dep_sysroot}/${qt_dir}"
             fi
-        fi
+        done
     done
 }