[CMake] Nmake verbose=1 gives no valuable output for cl.exe

[David Cole]

Not really recent. It was put in place to eliminate the "command line too
long" problem on Windows. It only applies to Windows nmake and Borland make
builds.

According to cvs annotate, it's been that way in that file since revision
1.3 in Aug. 2003....


On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 5:44 PM, Dixon, Shane <Shane.Dixon at atmel.com> wrote:

>  Is this a recent change?  I don't recall having to do anything like that
> before?  I'm running latest RC5.  Isn't this the kind of behavior that
> verbose=1 should set by default?  What's verbose about it if all the
> command-line options are obscured from the user in .tmp files that
> disappear?
>
> --
> Shane Dixon
> Linux Engineer
> Atmel Corporation
>
>
>
>  ------------------------------
> *From:* David Cole [mailto:david.cole at kitware.com]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, November 04, 2009 3:37 PM
> *To:* Dixon, Shane
> *Cc:* cmake at cmake.org
> *Subject:* Re: [CMake] Nmake verbose=1 gives no valuable output for cl.exe
>
> In the bottom of Modules/Platform/Windows.cmake:
>
> # uncomment these out to debug nmake and borland makefiles
> #SET(CMAKE_START_TEMP_FILE "")
> #SET(CMAKE_END_TEMP_FILE "")
> #SET(CMAKE_VERBOSE_MAKEFILE 1)
>
> Uncomment those three SET lines to see verbose nmake output...
>
>
> HTH,
> David
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 5:07 PM, Dixon, Shane <Shane.Dixon at atmel.com>wrote:
>
>> I added a definition using
>>
>> SET_TARGET_PROPERTIES( MyProjDLL-sw PROPERTIES
>>        COMPILE_FLAGS "-DEMULATION_MODE" )
>>
>> I tried to use "nmake verbose=1 MyProjDLL-sw" to watch the command-line
>> come by and verify it had the right definition, but all I get is this:
>>
>> C:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~1.0\VC\bin\cl.exe
>>  @C:\DOCUME~1\SHANE~1.DIX\LOCALS~1\Temp\nm54B2.tmp
>> myprojdll.c
>>
>> Do I have a command-line that's too long so it has to be put into a .tmp
>> file?  I can't find the file after the run so I'm assuming it gets deleted.
>>  How can I see what's getting passed to cl.exe?
>>
>> --
>> Shane Dixon
>> Linux Engineer
>> Atmel Corporation
>>
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