On Nov 6, 2008, at 12:53 PM, Tyler Roscoe wrote:
On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 10:14:20AM -0700, Eric (Brad) Lemings wrote:
The distclean target works in GNU build systems only if maintainers
utilize the hooks into the distclean target (e.g. distclean-local,
maintainer-clean-generic) that allows build scripts/Makefiles to
execute
commands that delete all other config files that the GNU build system
does not know about. By default, GNU build scripts only delete
config
files that they DO know about. This could work the same way in
CMake.
Fwiw, as a cmake noob, I agree with wanting a "distclean" target.
Cleaning up cmake's generated files is sort of a pain because it
produces a bunch of them in different directories and I can't just rm
-rf CMake* because it will kill my painstakingly constructed
CMakeLists.txt.
I have wanted to clean up and start over several times, such as for:
- copying my cmake testing sandbox to a Windows machine for testing
- demonstrating to co-workers the awe-inspiring wonder of cmake to go
from a clean dirtree to a built application
- preparing to add my work to source control
It's true that there can be gotchas if CMakeLists.txt creates some
other
build chaff that the distclean target doesn't know about. Maybe it
would
be better to call the target "cmakeclean" or similar and it could
explicitly only delete the "standard" cmake stuff (CMakeCache,
CMakeFiles/, ...).
tyler
Are you using a dedicated build directory or are you running cmake
directly from your source directory? If the latter.. STOP.. don't do
that. If you use a dedicated build directory then cleaning up from
cmake is as simple as rm -rf Build/ and there are no worries about
adding to source control because none of the build products are within
your source directories. Does this make sense?
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