With cmake, how would you disable in-source builds?

Question

I want to disallow people from cluttering our source tree with generated CMake files... and, more importantly, disallow them from stepping on existing Makefiles

Answer 1

You can configure your .bashrc file like this one

Look at the functions cmakekde and kdebuild. Set BUILD and SRC env. variables and edit these functions according to your needs. This will build only in buildDir rather than srcDir