[Qt-interest] QMake...

[Christopher Probst]

sorry make that

QMAKE_CLEAN += $$DESTDIR/*

or

QMAKE_CLEAN += $$DESTDIR/lib*

slashes work better on your platform ;)

On 24 Mar 2010, at 09:48, Christopher Probst wrote:

> Hello Ben,
>
> I would add  the following to your pro file.
>
> QMAKE_CLEAN += $$DESTDIR\*
>
> or
>
> QMAKE_CLEAN += $$DESTDIR\lib*
>
>
> depending on what you want deleted on a make clean..
>
> see
>
> for more details see
>
> http://doc.trolltech.com/4.5/qmake-variable-reference.html#qmake-clean
>
> Thanks,
> Christo
>
>
> On 24 Mar 2010, at 00:28, BRM wrote:
>
>> I have a number of projects that use Qmake; some have sub-projects
>> as dependencies.
>> Each project is laid out as follows:
>>
>> <project dir>\
>> <project dir>\src
>> <project dir>\include
>>
>> Most all of the dependencies build into static libraries using
>> Qmake, and as such leave their binaries in the following:
>>
>> <project dir>\lib
>> <project dir>\lib.debug
>>
>> This all works, the projects find their dependencies and link
>> without a problem.
>>
>> The problem is when a dependency fails to build, the previous build
>> is often still in the output location - even when I run 'make
>> distclean'; thus the full project links even when it should not.
>>
>> The output directory is specified as follow in the QMake file:
>>
>> CONFIG(debug,debug|release) {
>>   DESTDIR = ../lib.debug
>> } else {
>>   DESTDIR = ../lib
>> }
>>
>> Is there a way I can get it the QMake project to clean out the
>> DESTDIR location? At the very least when I run "make distclean",
>> though preferably on "make clean" too.
>> Note: The project only needs to clean out what it puts in there
>> itself.
>>
>> TIA,
>>
>> Ben
>>
>>
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