Eclipse CDT clean fails on Windows: tries to run rm -rf

Question

I am using Juno with CDT on Windows 7. When I try to clean a project using the internal builder or make provided by MinGW, Eclipse runs the *X command rm -rf and the cl

Answer 1

Turns out there's an attribute in the .cproject file xml the controls the clean command.

Look for the configuration tag, and set the cleanCommand attribute to what you want. I've set it to rm -rf and used gnuutils to support the command on windows.
You can change the command to whatever.