[CMake] Must the main config file be named MakeLists.txt ?

Brad King brad.king at kitware.com
Fri May 12 10:10:21 EDT 2006


Sylvain Benner wrote:
> We want to be able to put several main config file in the same directory 
> this involve that we can specifiy a main config file as an argument. Is 
> this possible ? I don't want to modify the cmake executable but I can 
> easily change the GUI to browse for file instead of path.
> An alternative is to create a folder for each MakeLists.txt but if there 
> is a way to put several config files in the same directory, I will be 
> happy to hear about that.
> If you have another solution to achieve the same goal, please let me know.

What is the goal?  You can always write a CMakeLists.txt file that just 
uses the INCLUDE command to include another file that is specified by 
the user in a cache entry.

-Brad


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