'Why doesn't CMake-generated make clean delete files created with configure_file
I'm using CMake for a project, and generating some configuration .h files with a configure_file() command. This works well enough, but - if I make clean, the generated file is not deleted - nor is it overwritten when I invoke cmake again with different parameters (or ccmake and so on).
Why is this the case, and how can I force re-generation of configure_file output files - when necessary / always?
Solution 1:[1]
It seems this may happen if the files are generated under the source folder rather than under the build folder. I think CMake treated the (generated) files it found as source files - or at least, not build files (see @Tsyvarev's comment), so they must not be deleted/altered.
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