[CMake] cmake directories

Brad King brad.king at kitware.com
Fri Dec 9 09:41:55 EST 2005


Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> Hi, 
>  
> two suggestions. 
>  
> 1) Now that cmake puts all its files under CMakeFiles/, how about putting 
> CMakeTmp/ also under this directory ? Then cmake would create only one 
> directory instead of two. 

Good idea.  Please create a feature-request.

> 2) Some months ago support for the CMAKE_TARGET_DIR_PREFIX was added to 
> cmake. Now that cmake puts all its files under CMakeFiles/, IMO it's not 
> required anymore and just a now-useless feature. Additionally it doesn't 
> work completely as one would expect, since the the CMakeFiles/ directory 
> is created additionally. So I'd vote for removing this feature again, as 
> long as nobody really used it. 

Sure, so you might as well mention this in the above feature request.

Thanks,
-Brad


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