2010/11/26 Wylie, Brian <bnwy...@sandia.gov>:
> Hi All,
>
> I want to force an 'out-of-source' build for a small project that I converted
> to use Cmake.
>
> I did a bit of searching and found variants of the following...
>
> # Make sure the build is out of source
> STRING(COMPARE EQUAL "${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}" "${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}" insource)
> IF(insource)
> MESSAGE(FATAL_ERROR "Do not build in your source dir please :)")
> ENDIF(insource)
>
>
> It works but it still generates a CMakeCache.txt file and a CMakeFiles
> directory in the source directory (which I've also seen others discussing)...
> is there a more official way to block 'in-source' builds that leaves the
> source dir pristine?
There is a feature request pending for this (with one duplicate)
http://www.vtk.org/Bug/view.php?id=6672
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