[CMake] bug or feature with SET_SOURCE_FILES_PROPERTIES?

Brad King brad.king at kitware.com
Tue Nov 22 13:42:18 EST 2005


Prakash Punnoor wrote:
> sub-optimal is the fact that cmake puts the flag at the beginning -
> before the other cflags. Usually if I want to explicitly use above I
> want to override some default flags - but the exact opposite is the
> case. As the flag is at the beginning it possibly get overridden by
> others. :-/
> 
> So is there a special reason for this? If not I'd like to have the flags
> placed at the very end if I specify them to be sure that they get
> respected. (An idea for improvement would probably be if the user could
> select where the flags goes - beginning or end.)

I don't know if there is a reason or not but we could have two other 
attributes like "COMPILE_FLAGS_PREFIX" and "COMPILE_FLAGS_SUFFIX". 
Please submit a feature request here:

http://www.cmake.org/Bug

Thanks,
-Brad


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