pruneemptydirs(1)

NAME

pruneemptydirs - detects stale source dirs in a CVS tree

SYNOPSIS

pruneemptydirs [ -f ]

DESCRIPTION

pruneemptydirs is used to clean up a local CVS tree. It

detects directories containing remnants of old stuff which has been re

moved from the
CVS. Such stale directories often break compilation.

The current
directory and all directories beneath it will be examined.

Note that this tool does not remove anything; it simply

prints what to
do as a series of remove commands. You can copy and

paste these commands, or use them with eval in a script.

This tool works better if the source directory is not the

same as the
build directory, since it will not print directories

containing old
executables.

This utility is part of the KDE Software Development Kit.

OPTIONS

-f Actually perform the deletions instead of just

printing them

out. Use this option with care (no warranties,

etc.)!

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

One of the following variables (but not both) should

be set if the
source directory is different from the build directory.

If the build
directory is simply a subdirectory of the source directo

ry, the simpler
variable OBJ_SUBDIR should be used.

OBJ_SUBDIR

Indicates that the build directory is in the given

subdirectory
of the source directory. For instance, if the

source directory
is kdesdk and the build directory is

kdesdk/obj-i386-linux, then
OBJ_SUBDIR should be set to obj-i386-linux.

OBJ_REPLACEMENT

A sed expression that is used to transform the

source directory
into the build directory. For instance, if the

source directory
is ~/src/kdesdk and the build directory is

~/src/kdesdk-obj,
then OBJ_REPLACEMENT could be set to

s#kdesdk#kdesdk-obj#.

AUTHOR

pruneemptydirs was written by David Faure <faure@kde.org>.
This manual page was prepared by Ben Burton <bab@de

bian.org> for the
Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

September 27, 2002

PRUNEEMPTYDIRS(1)