[CMake] ALL_BUILD and ZERO_CHECK

[Robert Dailey]

On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 2:14 PM, Hendrik Sattler <post at hendrik-sattler.de>wrote:

> Am Monday 24 November 2008 17:36:10 schrieb Bill Hoffman:
> > Robert Dailey wrote:
> > > You guys have managed to steal my thread and get completely off topic.
> > >
> > > Can anyone answer my original question please?
> >
> > ZERO_CHECK is essential to the build working.   ALL_BUILD is useful as
> > it creates the correct depend chain.  There is no way to turn these off.
>
> Maybe they could be renamed to something more pleasant to the eye (means:
> _not_ uppercase), e.g. "__cmake_target_all" and "__cmake_target_depcheck".
>
> ALL UPPERCASE FOR SUCH THINGS IS NOT REALLY THE BEST CHOICE.


That would definitely make it easier on the eyes, but I would really like to
see them placed in a subdirectory. Visual Studio also generates *.user files
and other temporary files that clutter the root directory. By putting the
vcproj files in a subdirectory we solve the problem elegantly.
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