[Scons-users] Why directories are not removed on clean?

[Russel Winder]

On Wed, 2012-10-24 at 08:31 -0400, Francis Bolduc wrote:

> +1

> 

> I consider this a minor annoyance that "scons -c" leaves traces. This

> forces me to add extra steps on top of SCons to clean my working

> copies.

> 

> Fortunately, with out-of-source builds using VariantDir, I only have

> to remove the one directory containing all build products.


This last point is the only reason I haven't been screaming and throwing
my toys out of my pram ;-)

I am still irritated having to have:

	Clean('.', buildDirectory)

in SConstruct.

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