[CMake] cleaning out cmake intermediate files

[Jan Woetzel]

Stephen Adler wrote:

> Guys,
>
> when I run cmake ., it generates a bunch of intermediate files. What's 
> the cleanest way of
> removing all these intermediate files, so that if I import the 
> directory tree into a code repository, I don't accidentally commit the 
> cmake intermediate files.

I agree that out of source build is the cleanest and easiest way - we 
use in 95%.

However, it's not always possible.
We solved the issue configuring the CVS server to ignore more patterns like

CMakeFiles
CMakeTmp
*.dir

Jan.

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