[CMake] cleaning targets

[Andreas Pakulat]

On 06.11.08 12:56:33, Eric (Brad) Lemings wrote:
> Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> > What would be the purpose of this ?
> > What is the purpose of distclean anyway ?
> >   
> These are conventional GNU cleaning targets that apply to virtually all
> software that is built from source.

Nitpick: They are automake targets, which nowadays doesn't mean "all
software" luckily.

> The various cleaning targets are specified here:
> http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/html_node/Clean.html
                              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
See :)

> The exact names of the targets are not so important as what they do (or
> supposed to do).

The way to get rid of any non-source files with CMake is rm -rf <builddir>.
If you're doing in-source builds then you're simply masochistic ;P

Andreas

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