[CMake] changing the cmake color scheme

[David Cole]

On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 8:51 AM, Michael Hertling <mhertling at online.de>wrote:

> On 09/04/2010 02:32 AM, Abe Bachrach wrote:
> > Hi there,
> > is there a way to change the color scheme that cmake uses while
> building??
> >
> > I would rather not have the message for linking be red, since this
> > immediately makes me think there was an error.
>
> As Eric has pointed out in the meantime, those colors are hardcoded
> in the CMake code base, but - if on *nix - look at the following:
>
> ADD_CUSTOM_TARGET(red2yellow ALL
>    COMMAND find ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR} -name build.make
>            -exec perl -pi -e "s/--red/--yellow/" "{}" "\;")
>
> Placed in the top-level CMakeLists.txt, this custom target tweakes the
> concerned Makefiles to present the linking message in a beautiful but
> unreadable yellow. ;) If it doesn't luckily execute as the very first
> target, you could resort to CMake's ordinary dependency mechanism.
>
> Yours colorfully,
>
> Michael
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But watch out if any of your file names have "--red" in them......

:-)
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