[CMake] Forwarding parameters to cmake through cmake-gui

[physhh .]

So the bugfix would be to use the -D parameters, given to cmake-gui, when
configuring a completely new project (=> cache is empty/non existing)? That
would make sense to me and shouldn't be hard to implement.


On Sat, Nov 2, 2013 at 1:00 PM, David Cole <dlrdave at aol.com> wrote:

> -----Original Message-----
>> From: J Decker <d3ck0r at gmail.com>
>> To: physhh . <physhh at gmail.com>
>> Cc: cmake <cmake at cmake.org>
>> Sent: Fri, Nov 1, 2013 9:51 pm
>> Subject: Re: [CMake] Forwarding parameters to cmake through cmake-gui
>>
>>
>> sorry and I should ask; after reading a bit more context;
>>
>> why are you using cmake-gui if you have -D's to pass already?
>>
>
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> It can make sense if you have a script that your users can run that
> populate a handful of -D options automatically, but that still require
> users to set some other options via the UI that are hard to determine
> proper values for automatically.
>
> D
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