Hi,
As part of a project I work on we use CMake's `ExternalProject()` to
build a set of runtime libraries that the project needs via a second
build system (Makefile based) that knows how to build the runtime
libraries. The code (which is full of hacks... sorry) is at [1].
What I want to do is when the `clean` target is invoked in the CMake
generated build system is have the command `make clean` invoked on the
project being built by `ExternalProject()`.
There was a post about this 10 years ago [1], has anything changed since then?
Using `ADDITIONAL_MAKE_CLEAN_FILES` is not really an option because
CMake doesn't know what files are generated by the other build system.
Even if CMake did know what those files were I don't think it should
be removing them itself. It should be using the other build system
because that knows best how to do a clean.
I realise the `clean` target won't be available for all generators but
for those that do, it would be really nice to able to do something
like this.
```
if (TARGET clean)
add_custom_target(CleanKLEERuntimes
COMMAND
make -f mycustom_makefile clean
USES_TERMINAL
)
add_dependencies(clean CleanKLEERuntimes)
endif()
```
Right now this doesn't work though.
* `if (TARGET clean)` is always false
* `add_dependencies()` does not work on the `clean` target.
[1]
https://github.com/klee/klee/blob/28a3d47fa03b9ed98f1bbb4f1b38ecbd44ab1a00/runtime/CMakeLists.txt#L104
[2] https://cmake.org/pipermail/cmake/2006-October/011477.html
Thanks,
Dan.
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