[CMake] One target being built several times during parallel build

Brad King brad.king at kitware.com
Thu Jun 18 08:55:01 EDT 2009


Denis Scherbakov wrote:
> Brad, could you please, ask someone who knows about this problem in detail
> what is this more important feature and why it is not possible
> to fix this bug?

Please report it here:

   http://www.cmake.org/Bug

> Could you suggest, how to prevent users from trying to compile two targets
> at a time? I think this is a MAJOR bug.

Since no one has been motivated enough to address it in the 9 year history
of the project I wouldn't consider it a showstopping bug.  Besides, even
if one tries this the build should still complete successfully...just with
some waste.

-Brad


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