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

Matthew Woehlke matthew.woehlke at kitware.com
Thu Apr 4 11:32:06 EDT 2013


On 2013-04-04 06:30, Daniel Carrera wrote:
> On 4 April 2013 11:40, Ansis Māliņš wrote:
>> What would be the benefit of such a command besides syntax?
>
> Only a small convenience, nothing big. I am used to typing "make
> cleann" when I want to make sure that I am starting from a clean
> slate. I also have my shell configured so that it warns me when I type
> rm -rf *. I generally appreciate the warning but I want to make an
> exception for the build directory.

cd ..
rm -rf build
mkdir build
cd build

...? ;-)

(If your build directories tend to be in the same place, you could 
easily write a shell function to do this, to save typing.)

-- 
Matthew



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