[CMake] Question about best practices for large Multi-stage builds

[Matthew Woehlke]

On 2013-08-26 16:37, Thomas Taranowski wrote:
> I tend to agree with you that 2 would not generally be a target.  However,
> there are external factors at play that I haven't mentioned.  For one, in
> our environment we'd like to pull the auto generated code into a code
> review tool, and to mechanize that we have a commit daemon running that can
> run the auto generate rule, and commit the difference to a review-only
> branch for inspection purposes.  It's true that it could be accomplished by
> doing the all build, and grabbing the output after the build was complete,
> it just takes alot longer.

In that case, you could always add another custom target that depends on 
all of your generated output files (as well as the targets using the 
same depending on them), similar to a 'build all third party' target.

-- 
Matthew