[CMake] Can CMake confgure shorter cmmand argments?

[Rolf Eike Beer]

Bo Berglund wrote:
> On Mon, 05 Aug 2013 19:25:38 +0200, Rolf Eike Beer
> 
> <eike at sf-mail.de> wrote:
> >Bo Berglund wrote:
> >> I am strugging wth building the Visualization ToolKit package for the
> >> Embarcadero RAD studio XE4 compiler.
> >> It uses CMake to create the makefiles and prepare for building.
> >> Now I have come across a showstopper where the CMake generated command
> >> to handle a library uses an exessively long commandline argument.
> >
> >> Example:
> >tl;dr: "please implement response files for this compiler" ;)
> >
> >Patches welcome.
> 
> I don't really understand this response...
> The Embarcadero compiler does accept response files, that is what I
> tried to explain in my post.
> A response file contains the list of files to use with the command and
> is specified on the command line using the @ modifier. So
> @listfile.txt means that the program will read its further arguments
> from that file.
> What I wanted to know is if there is a way to configure CMake to use
> this possibility....
> And specifically HOW one can tell CMake to do this?

They are obviously not implemented in CMake for this compiler. So one needs to 
do that.

Eike
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