[CMake] CMake 2.8.8 bug with cmake-gui and stop button

[David Cole]

It's a bug. You should not be able to generate unless a configure step
has *completed* successfully.

A good demonstration of the fact that GUI changes are hard to test.


On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 4:35 PM, Robert Dailey <rcdailey.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> Remember that change that was made to make pressing stop in cmake-gui more
> responsive? I'm finding an issue now where during configure, if I stop, it
> stops without failing, which allows me to press generate on a partial
> configuration. I'm not sure if this is a bug of feature but I thought I'd
> mention it. I output text in my CMake scripts for each target I create and
> configure:
>
> Checking for new third party libraries (might take a few minutes)...
>
> _copy_dlls being generated (may take a while)
>
> BUILD_VERSION is: 6.3.2.14
>
> + testharness --> common/testharness/CMakeLists.txt
>
> + gdutil --> common/util/CMakeLists.txt
>
> Configuring done
>
> Generating done
>
>
> I pressed stop and nothing failed after configuring 'gdutil' target. I have
> at least 100 other targets that are supposed to generate after that.
> Thoughts?
>
>
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