[CMake] Do build after GIT_TAG changed in ExternalProject_Add

[David Cole]

I think you meant to reply on the other thread with this one...

:-)
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On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 7:55 AM, Cedric Doucet <cedric.doucet at inria.fr> wrote:
>
> I don't know why but providing my own STAMP_DIR seems to solve the problem:
>
> STAMP_DIR  ${EXTERNAL_DIR}/eigen/stamp
>
> Hope it helps!
>
> Cédric
>
>
> ----- Mail original -----
>> De: "David Cole via CMake" <cmake at cmake.org>
>> À: "typ1232" <dummdoof-doof at web.de>
>> Cc: cmake at cmake.org
>> Envoyé: Jeudi 23 Avril 2015 13:51:06
>> Objet: Re: [CMake] Do build after GIT_TAG changed in ExternalProject_Add
>>
>> Hmmmmmm. I am seeing the same behavior you are, even with the older
>> CMake 2.8.12.2 -- the update step does run, but steps after that,
>> which are supposed to depend on update, are not re-running.
>>
>> I think your intuitive expectation is correct, and that
>> configure/build/install should run after changing the GIT_TAG. I
>> cannot see (quickly/yet) where the problem is in the chain of
>> ExternalProject custom commands...
>>
>> There's a nagging thought bouncing around in my brain telling me
>> there's something awfully familiar about this problem, and that I've
>> seen it and solved it before, but I can't quite put my finger on it.
>>
>> I must be forgetting something. And unfortunately, with the complexity
>> of ExternalProject, it takes quite some time to dig into something
>> deeply.
>>
>> Is anybody else listening on this thread? Shouldn't changing the
>> GIT_TAG value cause a re-configure+build+install of the
>> ExternalProject....?
>>
>>
>> David C.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 8:45 AM, typ1232 <dummdoof-doof at web.de> wrote:
>> > Note that I changed CMAKE_ARGS, so the target is used that contains the
>> > file
>> > that was changed in the commit.
>> >
>> > CMAKE_ARGS "-DSAF_INTENTIONAL_COMPILE_WARNING=TRUE"
>> >
>> >
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