[CMake] ExternalProject: avoiding rebuilds

[Ben Medina]

It's the same as "make clean; make", so it's not just a Visual Studio thing.

On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 10:45 AM, Rolf Eike Beer <eike at sf-mail.de> wrote:
> Am Montag, 26. September 2011, 10:37:57 schrieb Ben Medina:
>> John is right. The external project may be at the bottom of a chain of
>> (my own) project dependencies. I need to preserve the ability to
>> easily rebuild just my projects (and their dependencies), not external
>> projects. Think of ExternalProject as a replacement for pre-built
>> libraries, and you'll see where I'm coming from.
>>
>> Perhaps I need to file a feature request on Mantis.
>
> You may try, but I don't think that this will help. AFAICT this "clean and
> then rebuild" stuff is a Visual Studio thing.
>
> Eike
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