[CMake] Parallel builds do not work correctly when using "cmake -E copy" to copy files

[Alan W. Irwin]

On 2008-02-06 22:37-0500 Bill Hoffman wrote:

> Alan W. Irwin wrote:

> No file level depends are done mostly a build time.  This is a performance 
> issue.  Some generators like VS IDE do file level depends by themselves. 
> With the makefiles cmake computes the depends, but at build time not cmake 
> time.  The custom command stuff output input is known at cmake time, and 
> maybe enough for what you want.

Probably, since it is usually there where the build-system developer makes
mistakes in the dependencies.

> But if you have a file foo.c with #include 
> <foo.h>, cmake does not know that foo.c depends on foo.h until build time.

Right, but hopefully those automatically generated depends would be ok.

Alan.
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