[CMake] Possible to clean files of one target libraryonly?

[Michael Wild]

On 21.08.2009, at 19:16, Jörg Förstner <Joerg.Foerstner at ubidyne.com>  
wrote:

>> 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.
>
> We have a structure like this: <root>/<subproject>/<library>
> The sources are in the <library> folders.
> It works like you guessed it.
>
> Thanks,
> Jörg
>

To make things more convenient, you can also use the -C flag to tell  
Make to do the cd for you. This way you don't have to cd back  
afterwards.

Just in case you didn't know...

Michael