[CMake] Setting default make options for Makefiles generator

[Adolfo Rodríguez]

On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 11:17 AM, Kito Berg-Taylor
<kito.berg-taylor at dlr.de>wrote:

> I would like to second this idea, because it would solve another problem
> I'm having regarding CMake and environment variables.
>

Oh,  now that you mention environment variables, I think I could also
benefit from that too!


> Not to mention that being able to set the default to -j4 would be useful
> for internal projects where it's known that all machines building the
> project will have uniform hardware specifications.
>
> -kito
>
> On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 9:46 AM, Eric Noulard <eric.noulard at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > > 2009/3/5 Adolfo Rodr?guez <dofo79 at gmail.com>:
> > > > Thanks Philip,
> > > >
> > > > I had considered the alias option before, but wanted to rule out that
> > > there
> > > > was no way of doing it the scope of a cmake project, however strange
> that
> > > > may sound. I will probably take that path now.
> > >
> > > Note that I find the idea of being able to pass generator-specific
> > > options/file
> > > to cmake as a good idea. It could be done via a cmake command line
> option
> > >
> > > cmake -G"Unix Makefiles" -Go"whatever option passed to the specific
> > > generator"
> > >
> > > the -Go flags may be used to pass on generator specific options to the
> > > generator itself. It may be used to pass some options such as the
> parallel
> > > build
> > > for the makefile generator  or  whatever fancy VisualStudio specific
> > > option to it etc...
> > >
> > > -Go <string>
> > > would be a placeholder which should be passed "as-is" to the generator
> > > which may implement it's own way to handle its specific options
> > > (more flags, file names containing things, etc...)
> > >
> > > the baseline would be that generator shall not require -Go string but
> "may"
> > > support specific options.
> > >
> > > Do you (all) think it's worth a feature request ?
> > >
> > > --
> > > Erk
> > >
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