[CMake] Remove folders created by install

Eric Noulard eric.noulard at gmail.com
Wed Feb 20 07:22:29 EST 2019


There are some possible solutions and reference here:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41471620/cmake-support-make-uninstall

Le sam. 16 févr. 2019 à 15:48, Felix Crazzolara <felix.crazzolara at gmail.com>
a écrit :

> Hi everyone
>
> For my smaller projects I'd like to have 'uninstall' functionality. To
> remove installed files I can call:
>
> xargs rm < build/install_manifest.txt
>
> Unfortunately this won't delete any folders generated by the
> installation. Is there a different file that keeps track of the created
> directories, or what is the recommended way to implement such
> functionality?
>
> Example:
> Suppose that I install <project-name>_some_header.hpp in
> <prefix>/include/<project-name>/ using the command install(TARGETS
> <project-name> EXPORT <project-name>-targets ARCHIVE DESTINATION lib
> PUBLIC_HEADER DESTINATION include/<project-name>) then I want not only
> to remove
> <prefix>/include/<project-name>/<project-name>_some_header.hpp, but also
> the directory <prefix>/include/<project-name>/.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Felix Crazzolara
>
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Eric
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