On Sunday, August 28, 2011 09:33:01 PM Valentin Rusu wrote: > Hello, > > In my setup, the sources are cloned outside the ../build/ directory, as > that > let me easily find and modify them. But I just found out that the source > directory gets deleted when I recreate the corresponding build directory. > > To make it clear, here are the steps: > 1- go to one of the superbuild subdirs, > 2- mkdir build > 3- cd build > 4- cmake .. > 5- make > This will clone the sources in the src directory then build them. On my > setup, the src directory is outside this build directory. > > > Now, if the build directory created at step 2 is deleted (rm -rf build), > then steps 2 to 5 are re-executed, the src located directory will get > recreated at step 5 and all local modifications will be lost. > > I looked into the cmake externalproject_add macro documentation, but it > says > nothing about this. What would be the option that we must use to prevent > git clone if existing sources are in place?
I think nothing. The source dir is part of the build dir. Why do you want to delete it completely ? It should be enough to delete only the "Build" dir in the build dir (and not the "Source" dir which is with the default setup its sibling). So, for a superbuild, the building is the whole process, i.e. getting the sources, configuring, and updating them. By deleting the build dir of this super- or meta-build, all steps have to be redone, including getting the sources. I'll have a closer look again in the next days. Alex _______________________________________________ Kde-buildsystem mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-buildsystem
