On 6. Oct, 2010, at 20:10 , <aaron.mead...@thomsonreuters.com> <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.
I don't think there's a way to prevent that from happening. The bad thing about
this is that if the user doesn't clean away the in-source CMakeCache.txt file,
subsequent out-of-source builds will fail. Perhaps you can do something like
this:
# check for polluted source tree
if(EXISTS ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/CMakeCache.txt OR
EXISTS ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/CMakeFiles)
message(FATAL_ERROR
"CMakeCache.txt or CMakeFiles exists in source directory!")
endif()
# make sure the user doesn't play dirty with symlinks
get_filename_component(srcdir "${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}" REALPATH)
get_filename_component(bindir "${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}" REALPATH)
# disallow in-source builds
if(${srcdir} STREQUAL ${bindir})
message(FATAL_ERROR "In-source builds are forbidden!")
endif()
>
> 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..)
No, simply because CMake cannot. Your build system might have something like
the following:
execute_process(COMMAND echo "BOOM" > ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/boom.txt VERBATIM)
CMake never knows that the file boom.txt is written, and therefor can't clean
it away. The only reasonable way I know of is using git (http://git-scm.com):
git clean -df
will remove all the files and directories that are not part of the repository.
With tar-ball builds it's easier. Just wipe the source tree and unpack again.
Michael
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