2 files changed, 1 insertions, 15 deletions

diff --git a/Source/cmGlobalNinjaGenerator.cxx b/Source/cmGlobalNinjaGenerator.cxx
index 4147ba8..ef80632 100644
--- a/Source/cmGlobalNinjaGenerator.cxx
+++ b/Source/cmGlobalNinjaGenerator.cxx
@@ -582,18 +582,9 @@ void cmGlobalNinjaGenerator::CleanMetaData()
 
   // Skip some ninja tools if they need 'build.ninja' but it is missing.
   bool const missingBuildManifest = expectBuildManifest &&
-    (this->NinjaSupportsCleanDeadTool ||
-     this->NinjaSupportsUnconditionalRecompactTool) &&
+    this->NinjaSupportsUnconditionalRecompactTool &&
     !cmSystemTools::FileExists("build.ninja");
 
-  // The `cleandead` tool needs to know about all outputs in the build we just
-  // wrote out. Ninja-Multi doesn't have a single `build.ninja` we can use that
-  // is the union of all generated configurations, so we can't run it reliably
-  // in that case.
-  if (this->NinjaSupportsCleanDeadTool && !this->DisableCleandead &&
-      expectBuildManifest && !missingBuildManifest) {
-    run_ninja_tool({ "cleandead" });
-  }
   // The `recompact` tool loads the manifest. As above, we don't have a single
   // `build.ninja` to load for this in Ninja-Multi. This may be relaxed in the
   // future pending further investigation into how Ninja works upstream
@@ -680,9 +671,6 @@ void cmGlobalNinjaGenerator::CheckNinjaFeatures()
       }
     }
   }
-  this->NinjaSupportsCleanDeadTool = !cmSystemTools::VersionCompare(
-    cmSystemTools::OP_LESS, this->NinjaVersion.c_str(),
-    RequiredNinjaVersionForCleanDeadTool().c_str());
   this->NinjaSupportsUnconditionalRecompactTool =
     !cmSystemTools::VersionCompare(
       cmSystemTools::OP_LESS, this->NinjaVersion.c_str(),
diff --git a/Source/cmGlobalNinjaGenerator.h b/Source/cmGlobalNinjaGenerator.h
index 8df0372..9344c4d 100644
--- a/Source/cmGlobalNinjaGenerator.h
+++ b/Source/cmGlobalNinjaGenerator.h
@@ -372,7 +372,6 @@ public:
   {
     return "1.10";
   }
-  static std::string RequiredNinjaVersionForCleanDeadTool() { return "1.10"; }
   static std::string RequiredNinjaVersionForMultipleOutputs()
   {
     return "1.10";
@@ -544,7 +543,6 @@ private:
   bool NinjaSupportsDyndeps = false;
   bool NinjaSupportsRestatTool = false;
   bool NinjaSupportsUnconditionalRecompactTool = false;
-  bool NinjaSupportsCleanDeadTool = false;
   bool NinjaSupportsMultipleOutputs = false;
   bool NinjaSupportsMetadataOnRegeneration = false;