[Cmake] Non recursive makefiles

Vivek Rajan vrajan at magic-earth.com
Fri, 30 Jan 2004 13:24:29 -0600


Hi Cmake users,

I currently use GNU makefiles for my projects and they port easily to 
most unix platforms. But that's not the case with Visual Studio / 
Windows. So I'm looking at moving my projects over to use CMake.

I've started looking at CMake and the makefiles generated by it are 
recursive makefiles. Now, non-recursive makefiles are considered to 
better than recursive ones. And the reasons why they are better is 
explained in the paper "Recursive Make Considered Harmful".
http://www.pcug.org.au/~millerp/rmch/recu-make-cons-harm.html

So my question is, is there a way to generate non-recursive makefiles 
using CMake or is there a way to extended CMake to do this?

Thanks,
-- Vivek