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. _______________________________________________ CMake mailing list [email protected] http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake
