[CMake] File remove_recurse doesn't on OSX

[Belcourt, Kenneth]

On Mar 16, 2011, at 11:57 AM, Belcourt, Kenneth wrote:

>
> On Mar 16, 2011, at 11:46 AM, David Cole wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 1:40 PM, Belcourt, Kenneth  
>> <kbelco at sandia.gov> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> A quick bug report with CMake 2.8.4 on OSX 10.5.8 built with Intel  
>>> 11.0.064.
>>>  This command works fine
>>>
>>> file(REMOVE ${Bwr_Files})
>>>
>>> while this one fails.
>>>
>>> file(REMOVE_RECURSE ${Bwr_Files})
>>>
>>> And by fails I mean it doesn't remove any files at all, much less
>>> recursively.  This should be easy to reproduce, do I need to file  
>>> a bug or
>>> can this get fixed for 2.8.5?
>
>
>> The arguments to file(REMOVE_RECURSE are intended to be directory
>> names. Are they?
>
> One of the names is a directory, the rest are files.
>
> set(Bwr_Files
>   ${Bwr_Dir}/acoeff.txt
>   ${Bwr_Dir}/BWRG_v2-0.DIA
>   ${Bwr_Dir}/BWRG_v2-0.OUT
>   ${Bwr_Dir}/BWR_OUT.HTM
>   ${Bwr_Dir}/BWR_v2-0.DIA
>   ${Bwr_Dir}/BWR_v2-0.MES
>   ${Bwr_Dir}/BWR_v2-0.OUT
>   ${Bwr_Dir}/BWR_v2-0.PTF
>   ${Bwr_Dir}/BWR_v2-0.RST
>   ${Bwr_Dir}/extDIAG_v2-0
>   ${Bwr_Dir}/fort.32
>   ${Bwr_Dir}/fort.36
>   ${Bwr_Dir}/HTML
>   ${Bwr_Dir}/MELGIN_v2-0.CAN
>   ${Bwr_Dir}/NodeDiagram.html
>   ${Bwr_Dir}/tmpry
> )
>
> The funny thing is remove_recurse works as expected on Linux, it  
> removes the files and recursively removes the directories.  On the  
> Mac remove_recurse does nothing at all but file(remove ...) on the  
> Mac works as expected, it just leaves the directories alone.
>
>> Is the Mac file system in question case-sensitive, or
>> case-insensitive? (By default, most Macs are case-insensitive... and
>
> and case-preserving.  Yes, this particular disk is the default.

but it would help if it was the Leopard disk.

   Volumes:
LeopardOSX:
   Capacity:	232.76 GB
   Available:	34.45 GB
   Writable:	Yes
   File System:	Journaled HFS+
   BSD Name:	disk2s2
   Mount Point:	/

>> we've had other reports of file weirdnesses on
>> case-sensitive-file-system-based Macs -- we do not have one of these
>> presently here at Kitware, so it's hard for us to repro any such bugs
>> to figure out if there is a good fix or not. Suggestions welcome.)
>
>
> What command is run on the Mac, any easy way to find out?  The  
> file(remove ...) works okay, I'd have guessed that  
> file(remove_recurse ...) just adds the -r option to the rm -f command.
>
> -- Noel
>
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