[CMake] Possible to clean files of one target library only?

[Marcel Loose]

On Wed, 2009-08-19 at 11:02 -0700, Tyler Roscoe wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 11:54:18AM -0600, Timothy M. Shead wrote:
> > If you are using CMake to generate makefiles, you can run "make clean" 
> > in a subdirectory of your build tree, and make will only remove the 
> > files for that directory - you can use this to do library-specific 
> > cleaning, provided that you've organized your sources so each library 
> > has its own directory.
> 
> I do not see this behavior. make clean gets rid of object files and
> libraries for the project where I run "make clean" and for all that
> project's dependencies. All my projects have their own source and binary
> directories.
> 
> tyler

Hmm, just a guess (I haven't tried it out).

Maybe it's working for Tim because he has a hierarchy of projects. I
have a big project that is subdivided into (sub)projects. As a result,
the build directory of a sub-project is a subdirectory of the build
directory of the top-level project. When I go to the build directory of
a given sub-project and issue 'make clean', only the files for that
sub-project are deleted, not those of its parent project.

So, maybe this only works if you've divided your (big) project into
sub-projects.

Best regards,
Marcel Loose.