On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 2:10 PM, <aaron.mead...@thomsonreuters.com> wrote:
> *Hi all.* > > * * > > *Is there a good way to disallow in-source builds? Ideally, I’d like to > prevent it before any cruft is written into the source tree. I experimented > with writing a function into my CMakelists file and calling it. The > function checked if CMAKE_BINARY_DIR was equal to CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR and > messaged a FATAL_ERROR if that was the case. This works ok, but still > generates a CMakeFiles directory and a CMakeCache.txt file.* > > * **The second half of the question is of course, is there an easy way to > clean out a source tree if an in-source build was accidentally kicked off? > (short of dividing the files by their timestamp and removing the newer ones, > etc..)* > CMake doesn't have a command to clean up after itself which seems to be what you're asking for (it would help for both use-cases you specify). This is kind of related to my ticket asking for a distclean target, so I'll just throw it out there in case anyone has some free time on their hands. http://www.cmake.org/Bug/view.php?id=6647 -- Philip Lowman
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