[CMake] faq update?

Brandon Van Every bvanevery at gmail.com
Thu Sep 13 17:47:03 EDT 2007


On 9/13/07, Juan Sanchez <Juan.Sanchez at amd.com> wrote:
> Hello Brandon,
>
> This is the way they are choosing to do this in our organization.  We
> only build for gcc on Linux.  If we built for multiple platforms, we
> could have platform specific conditional statements, as in the
> hyperlinked example I have provided.
>
> In deference to elegance, the project will now compile in half the time.
>
> The statement in the FAQ is untrue:
>
> >> That means I have to build all my library objects twice, once for shared
> >> and once for static. I don't like that!

It's true enough for most.  But in deference to strict logic and the
marketability of the FAQ, I've changed the statement to a question:

"[Does that mean] I have to build all my library objects twice, once
for shared and once for static?! I don't like that!"

I'm the one who redrafted that whole section in the 1st place, to make
things clear that weren't terribly intelligible before, so I'm guilty
of being a little touchy on the wordsmithing.  Like saying something
is "untrue" when it's true 95% of the time.  But no matter, this one's
true 100% of the time, everyone's happy!  :-)


Cheers,
Brandon Van Every


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