[Qt-interest] QMake...

[BRM]

Thanks. That looks to do the trick:

QMAKE_CLEAN *= $$DESTDIR/*

Any trick to removing directories?
E.g.:

QMAKE_DISTCLEAN *= $$DESTDIR


Ben


----- Original Message ----
> From: Christopher Probst <cprobst at ics.com>
> To: BRM <bm_witness at yahoo.com>
> Cc: qt-interest <qt-interest at trolltech.com>
> Sent: Wed, March 24, 2010 6:07:38 AM
> Subject: Re: [Qt-interest] QMake...
> 
> 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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