[CMake] "make superclean" target? (i.e. clear *everything*)

[Eric Noulard]

2013/4/4 Daniel Carrera <dcarrera at gmail.com>

> On 4 April 2013 11:41, Eric Noulard <eric.noulard at gmail.com> wrote:
> > You can perfectly add a custom target/command to do that,
> > if you do out-of-source build then removing the build dir is ok.
>
> Thanks. Yes, I am doing out of source builds.
>
> > Now, this would be a one-shot suicidal target since this will
> > basically erase the build tool file (VS project, Makefile, ...)
> > which is needed to launch itself :-]
>
> Why is it suicidal? The Makefile doesn't mean anything. All the
> intelligence is in CMakeLists.txt.
>

Yes I know.
By suicidal I mean that the built tool will remove its own file
(but not the CMakeLists.txt off course).

i.e:

make superclean
will succeed , but ...

make superclean; make
won't  since "make superclean" will have thrown the "Makefile" away.


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