[CMake] Clearing all cmake files

Matthew Woehlke mw_triad at users.sourceforge.net
Wed Sep 10 12:15:26 EDT 2008


Aleix wrote:
> I still wonder why cmake does let to build a builddir in a non-empty
> folder...

$ rm CMakeCache.txt
$ cmake ../src
CMake error: build dir not empty

:-)

I think it would be impossible to determine if the build dir contains 
*only* files generated by cmake. (For example, you changed the 
CMakeList.txt's quite a bit - new files and such - and then deleted the 
cache and Makefile's. The build dir may indeed contain only build files, 
but you no longer have anything to tell you what those build files /are/.)

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Matthew
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