[CMake] Effort to create a new generator (tup)

Bill Hoffman bill.hoffman at kitware.com
Fri May 7 12:37:16 EDT 2010


On 5/7/2010 10:32 AM, Mike Shal wrote:

>>>
>>   That would be a serious problem.  As folks would expect to be able to edit
>> a CMakeLists.txt file (the input to cmake), run tup, and have the right
>> stuff happen.
>
> Is the normal mode of operation to run 'cmake' followed by 'make'? Do
> you not need to run 'cmake' ever again because 'make' is setup to
> re-create the Makefiles from CMakeLists.txt as appropriate? Does that
> work if you add new directories and such? Sorry for the noob questions
> - I'm still trying to learn how you expect things to work.
>

Yes, that is the normal mode of things.  You run cmake once on a build 
tree, and after that the build system takes care of running cmake again 
if needed.  It works if you have new directories or get rid of 
directories or pretty much any change you can think of...


-Bill


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