[CMake] CMake minimum required version

Russell Wallace russell.wallace at gmail.com
Sat Aug 25 13:52:13 EDT 2012


Explicit in the actual set of .cc files that exist in the src directory.

On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 6:48 PM, David Cole <david.cole at kitware.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 1:38 PM, Russell Wallace
> <russell.wallace at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 12:41 PM, Rolf Eike Beer <eike at sf-mail.de> wrote:
>>> That sounds suspicious. From the documentation (cmake --help-command file):
>>>
>>>        We do not recommend using GLOB to
>>>        collect a list of source files from your source tree.  If no
>>>        CMakeLists.txt file changes when a source is added or removed then the
>>>        generated build system cannot know when to ask CMake to regenerate.
>>
>> Of course it can't, I wasn't expecting it to. That's not a reason to
>> violate DRY keeping the two lists in sync by hand! All you need to do
>> is issue a single command to scrub the build directory and re-create
>> it. Not only is that strictly less work, more importantly, it's
>> strictly less error-prone.
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>
> Nobody's asking you to keep two lists in sync.
>
> We're recommending that you keep your one list in a CMakeLists.txt
> file (or something included by it) so that when you modify the list,
> CMake will automatically re-run.
>
> Where is your list of source files, if it's not explicit in the CMakeLists file?


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