[CMake] disabling the cache

James Bigler bigler at cs.utah.edu
Thu Nov 1 09:40:45 EDT 2007


On Nov 1, 2007, at 7:29 AM, Jesper Eskilson wrote:

> Andreas Pakulat wrote:
>> On 01.11.07 10:49:12, Jesper Eskilson wrote:
>>> In any case, the automatic regeneration of project files *does*  
>>> *not*
>>> *work*, and my question was simply if there was a plan for either  
>>> doing
>>> something about it (such as disabling it per default, which would  
>>> be a
>>> sensible thing to do, IMHO), and/or documenting that it is broken.
>>
>> So far you're the only one claiming that (in this thread), I  
>> suggest to
>> come up with a small sample project where changing the CMakeLists.txt
>> doesn't trigger a cmake run. If you've got that you can file a  
>> bugreport
>> against cmake.
>
> Did you actually read my post before replying?
>
> I'm not claiming that cmake does not regenerate the project files. I'm
> not claiming that Visual Studio does not reload the projects files.  
> What
> I'm claiming is that ***the project files aren't reloaded until the
> build already has completed***, meaning that I need to build  
> ***again***
> to make sure that the changes to my CMakeLists.txt actually make it  
> into
> Visual Studio.

What is the desired behavior?

Did you want CMake to somehow notify the user that your project build  
is incomplete and to build again?

Did you want CMake to stop after rebuilding project files, notify the  
user, then only build the code if the project files weren't modified?

James


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