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List:       cmake
Subject:    Re: [CMake] Remove folders created by install
From:       Kuba Ober <kuba () mareimbrium ! org>
Date:       2019-02-20 2:03:54
Message-ID: E8B5F35D-47B7-4B12-BEAC-B23C118FCEC1 () mareimbrium ! org
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Use something to read the manifest, extract paths from it, remove the duplicates, \
then iterate them, and remove the ones that are empty. It'd be a bad idea probably to \
remove ones that are not empty.

Cheers, Kuba

> 16 feb. 2019 kl. 09:47 skrev Felix Crazzolara <felix.crazzolara@gmail.com>:
> 
> Hi everyone
> 
> For my smaller projects I'd like to have 'uninstall' functionality. To remove \
> installed files I can call: 
> xargs rm < build/install_manifest.txt
> 
> Unfortunately this won't delete any folders generated by the installation. Is there \
> a different file that keeps track of the created directories, or what is the \
> recommended way to implement such functionality? 
> Example:
> Suppose that I install <project-name>_some_header.hpp in \
> <prefix>/include/<project-name>/ using the command install(TARGETS <project-name> \
> EXPORT <project-name>-targets ARCHIVE DESTINATION lib PUBLIC_HEADER DESTINATION \
> include/<project-name>) then I want not only to remove \
> <prefix>/include/<project-name>/<project-name>_some_header.hpp, but also the \
> directory <prefix>/include/<project-name>/. 
> Cheers,
> 
> Felix Crazzolara
> 
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