[CMake] FYI - From Ninja-build mailing list - Fwd: Proposal: restat rules

[Bill Hoffman]

On 9/14/2011 5:37 AM, Clifford Yapp wrote:
> Looks like that's working.  Running ninja again, I'm seeing another issue:
>
> BRL-CAD uses dependency assignment to make sure our build time delta
> calculator is the last target to be built (and hence actually times the
> build).  With ninja, it doesn't seem to be respecting this, but instead
> tries to run the delta target immediately.  Do custom targets respect
> dependency information?
>

I would think the best think to do would be to focus on the CMake tests. 
  If these are not all passing, then there is a good chance any large 
project will fail at some point.  If all the tests are passing, I would 
think most anything could be built.


-Bill