[CMake] make in a subdir takes ages.

[Manuel Klimek]

Hi,

what about an install-recursive target. We 'injected'
such a target manually in our autotools-based environment,
and while it's probably possible to generate such
a target manually in cmake, too (using macros), it would
be a nice default-feature.

Idea: if you're somewhere in the build tree, install-recursive
will install (and build, if out of date) all targets the
targets in the current directory depend on and then do a
make install locally.

cheers,
Manuel

> On Tuesday 6 June 2006 11:09, you wrote:
>> I'm not sure we didn't misunderstand.
>>
>> I suggested to turn the option CMAKE_SKIP_INSTALL_ALL_DEPENDENCY in
>> KDEs cmake files on. This will have the effect that if you "make
>> install" in some subdir, it will try to install in this subdir and
>> nothing else. I.e. it will not try to build in this subdir (and also
>> not in subdirs the current subdir depends on).
>
> Yes, I did't make clear that I understood that. Sorry.
> Doing that will require people to always type 'make all' and then a 'make
> install'.
> I'm pretty sure that this is going to give people big question marks above
> their heads since thats a logical dependency. Make install should always
> depend on make all.
>
> To put this in perspective; I asked for a make target to install one
> specific library, which includes the compiling of the right sourcefiles
> needed for that.
> This feature is not possible in cmake and all suggestions made in this
> thread either disrupt the normal workflow or just do a lot of work thats
> not needed.
> If the /fast is available then that will ease the pain already somewhat :)
> --
> Thomas Zander
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