Re: [AD] make clean

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On Thu September 10 2009, Evert Glebbeek wrote:
> > I ahven't looked at how this is handled in detail, but it sounds like
> > something that should be easy to fix...
> 
> Ah, it *was* fixed, there's even a comment saying symlinks are bad and
> should be avoided.
> The problem was that I still had the symlink around - I expected make
> clean to remove it, but clearly it didn't. Removing it manually and
> then running make corrects the problem: it now creates directories for
> the data it copies over, solving the problem. In-source builds should
> be fine.
> 
> Easiest bug I've ever fixed. :P
>

Heh, I fairly regularly run:  rm -fr build/*

Usually because of something CMake decided to cache, and its easier for me to 
just rm -fr * than to remember the location of the cmake cache ;D

> Evert
> 
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