[CMake] Documentation does not include --check-build-system

[J Decker]

On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 9:17 AM, Alexander Neundorf
<a.neundorf-work at gmx.net> wrote:
> On Monday 28 November 2011, J Decker wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 12:01 PM, Alexander Neundorf
>>
>> <a.neundorf-work at gmx.net> wrote:
>> > On Saturday 26 November 2011, J Decker wrote:
>> >> I don't find any documentation on the command that cmake uses with a
>> >> cmake -E --check-build-system .... Does this option happen to set any
>> >> specific cmake variable indicating that it is doing a check build?
>> >>
>> >> I'm inquiring and I saw a post about it before
>> >> http://www.kwwidgets.org/Bug/view.php?id=2133   (closed)
>> >>
>> >> about someone saying it might be nice to be able to bypass the
>> >> cmake_check_build_system rule in the makefile.
>> >>
>> >> I would like to make building this project a single click interface.
>> >> - in the cmake script I can define some options to build all, install
>> >> or package during the configure.  But if I do, then the first thing
>> >> that is done is the cmake script is processed again (which it already
>> >> was), which triggers the make again, which calls cmake, etc.  I could
>> >> test to see if's a phase that isn't --check-build-system and do the
>> >> command?
>> >>
>> >> Also I think I'd really just like to be the last thing done on a
>> >> 'generate' in the cmake-gui (not entirely sure what the difference is
>> >> between configure and generate).
>> >
>> > "Configure" basically processes the CMakeLists.txt, "Generate" then
>> > generates the Makefiles/project files.
>>
>> Right; but there's apparently no way for a script to know if it is
>> being configured or generated?  - or build-checked?
>
> which script do you mean ?
> The CMakeLists.txt files ?
> They are so to say always processed in the configure-phase.
>

so that is to imply there's no way to inject into the generate phase?
maybe post-generate; but it doesn't really matter - would be safer
overall to cmake --build; but it needs a gui - command line is foreign
to so many developer

> Alex
>