[CMake] What about...

Craig Bradney cbradney at zip.com.au
Fri May 26 11:52:02 EDT 2006


On Friday 26 May 2006 17:05, Thomas Zander wrote:
> On Friday 26 May 2006 16:24, you wrote:
> > I am not sure I understand what you want to type to do the build?
>
> williamMake would do; of wmake if you want. :)
> Bottom line; I don't care what the name is as long as it _can_ be made
> more usable. Which is impossible with make.
>
> You apparently are completely used to the idea of having to type really
> long, non intuitive (at least I would never come up with them) and all
> capitals variable names; but I don't like um.
> And as I know a little about usability I know that the best way to solve
> the issue is to make it easier to find and type them.
> My first solution there would be to have to most used ones part of a new
> imaginary command;
>  wmake
> with options like:
>   wmake -v
> which ends up doing the same as 'make VERBOSE=true' but be easier to find
> since its visible when the user types 'wmake --help'

You can set this in the CMakeLists.txt file if you want so you dont have type 
it on cmd line..
set(CMAKE_VERBOSE_MAKEFILE TRUE)

Craig


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