[CMake] seperate source/build directories (Was: cleaning targets)

[Michael Jackson]

On Nov 6, 2008, at 3:02 PM, Eric (Brad) Lemings wrote:

> Michael Jackson wrote:
>> 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?
>>
> As a developer, I nearly always keep source and build directories
> separate.  As a user however -- when I want to just download and  
> install
> some particular software package -- I almost never go through the
> trouble of building outside of the source tree.  I suspect this is the
> case for many developers/users.  So saying that one approach over the
> other is "bad" depends on your perspective.
>
> Two cents.
>
> Eric.
>

And you do this _because_ you are used to the ./configure, make, make  
install of autotools. CMake is slightly different and should be  
treated as such.

mkdir Build
cd Build
cmake ../
make
make install.

All this is asking is 2 extra commands.

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Mike Jackson                  mike.jackson at bluequartz.net
BlueQuartz Software                    www.bluequartz.net
Principal Software Engineer                  Dayton, Ohio