[CMake] "Pre-configure" step in CMake

[Bill Hoffman]

On 9/24/2015 4:26 PM, Matthäus G. Chajdas wrote:
> Hi,
>
> that sounds like it would do the trick. I wasn't aware that
> execute_process will block the script until it's done executing. Need to
> check this out but that definitely looks like the way to go, thanks!
ExternalProject might be a better option.  It pushes the downloads to 
build time and handles dependencies without having to re-run CMake.  If 
you run a download script at CMake time, it could take an unknown amount 
of time to configure.

-Bill