[CMake] [Titan-developers] Forcing 'out-of-source' build

[Dave Partyka]

I am not sure if you can prevent it from generating those files but you
could remove those files with file(REMOVE ...) in your IF(insource) block.

On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 3:24 PM, Wylie, Brian <bnwylie at sandia.gov> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I want to force an 'out-of-source' build for a small project that I
> converted to use Cmake.
>
> I did a bit of searching and found variants of the following...
>
> # Make sure the build is out of source
> STRING(COMPARE EQUAL "${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}" "${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}" insource)
>  IF(insource)
>    MESSAGE(FATAL_ERROR "Do not build in your source dir please :)")
>  ENDIF(insource)
>
>
> It works but it still generates a CMakeCache.txt file and a CMakeFiles
> directory in the source directory (which I've also seen others
> discussing)...  is there a more official way to block 'in-source' builds
> that leaves the source dir pristine?
>
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