Re: Building in a separate build directory

[Marcus Müller]

 On Friday, May 17, 2002, at 10:29 AM, Andreas Hoeschler wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> > even better: MacOSX also supports "build-intermediate", that is, it can keep temporary object files (eg .o files) in a separate dir from the results (GNUstep make places all files in a single directory).
> >
> > I think Nicola considered to add the "build-dir" feature to gstep-make, but currently it isn't supported.
>
> Thanks Helge for the info. That' s sad. How are people doing backups then? Include all the object files? This is a newbie question, I know, nevertheless, how can I go through a tree of project directories and remove all shared_obj directories without having to reference each shared_obj directory directly? I would liek to do this remove before backing up sources.

Instead of 'gmake clean' use 'gmake distclean'. This will do exactly what you want it to do. ;-)

<Marcus


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