[CMake] Trouble with CMake + Eclipse + SVN/CVS

[a.neundorf-work at gmx.net]

On Wednesday 17 October 2007 20:46, Miguel A. Figueroa-Villanueva wrote:
> On 10/17/07, Eric Noulard wrote:
> > 2007/10/17, Pau Garcia i Quiles:
> > > After reading those threads, I have been able to make
> > > scenario A (out-of-tree build) work with a bit of manual work.
> > >
> > > I am trying to modify the Eclipse generator to perform the changes
> > > automatically and will provide a patch.
> >
> > I welcome your patch and will be pleased to give it a try.
>
> Obviously, the help in developing and testing is appreciated, but for
> the particular problem in question the patch is required for the
> Eclipse plugin. There are a few things that need to be worked on in
> the generator that can be of great help, but I'm not sure that
> .project/.cproject in the source directory is the right solution. More
> below...
>
> > 2007/10/17, Mike Jackson:
> > > I agree that there are some conflicting philosophies here. I am a bit
> > > more practical about this. I just need to get my work done.
> >
> > I agree with that too.
> > I'm pretty sure it's a very good point for CMake to smoothly
> > support a great CDT4 generator.
> >
> > My comment was about the fact that the buggy behavior
> > of the CDT4 Generator for CVS enabled project should
> > not be seen as CDT4 generator's fault.
>
> Exactly, the bug is in the Eclipse plugin... CMake is just too
> powerful for it ;)
>
> > I am ok with the fact that CDT4 generator should
> > put it's (.project/.cproject) ouput inside source tree.
>
> I'm certainly not, but I'm only the author of the CDT4 generator not a
> CMake developer ;)

I can assure you that the cmake developers agree with you, cmake must not 
create files in the source tree when building out-of-source.

Wasn't there a way to get the cvs/svn stuff working with the eclipse 
generator ?
E.g. by setting up a project in eclipse for the cvs/svn sources and then 
additionally loading the cmake generated out-of-source eclipse project ?

I think a good thing would be to document in the cmake wiki how to set this up 
with the cmake generator.

Alex