[CMake] What about...

frederic heem frederic.heem at telsey.it
Fri May 26 12:02:39 EDT 2006


On Friday 26 May 2006 17:52, Craig Bradney wrote:
> 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)
>
Actually, I wonder why CMAKE_VERBOSE_MAKEFILE  is not set to TRUE by default, 
each time, I have to set it manually and I find it quite annoying.

> Craig
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