[CMake] Updated code in header file ignored?

Nick Overdijk nick at astrant.net
Sun Mar 17 08:12:56 EDT 2013


Howdy,

I have a header file, vertices.hpp with some not-inline function-definitions (yes really defs not decls), and a project, beamer. Sometimes when I change vertices.hpp, the changes don't reflect in the binary. I was wondering why this is, so I grepped a bit in my build-dir:

./motor/CMakeFiles/motor.dir/CXX.includecache:1224:vertices.hpp
./motor/CMakeFiles/motor.dir/CXX.includecache:1225:/Users/nick/Documents/Code/new-onegame/motor/basic/vertices.hpp
./motor/CMakeFiles/motor.dir/CXX.includecache:1241:/Users/nick/Documents/Code/new-onegame/motor/basic/vertices.hpp
./motor/CMakeFiles/motor.dir/depend.internal:438: /Users/nick/Documents/Code/new-onegame/motor/basic/vertices.hpp
./motor/CMakeFiles/motor.dir/depend.internal:558: /Users/nick/Documents/Code/new-onegame/motor/basic/vertices.hpp
./motor/CMakeFiles/motor.dir/depend.make:437:motor/CMakeFiles/motor.dir/basic/mesh.cpp.o: ../motor/basic/vertices.hpp
./motor/CMakeFiles/motor.dir/depend.make:557:motor/CMakeFiles/motor.dir/basic/resource_cache.cpp.o: ../motor/basic/vertices.hpp
./src/CMakeFiles/beamer.dir/CXX.includecache:116:vertices.hpp
./src/CMakeFiles/beamer.dir/CXX.includecache:117:../src/../motor/basic/vertices.hpp
./src/CMakeFiles/beamer.dir/CXX.includecache:1462:vertices.hpp

And that's all mentions of vertices.hpp in beamer. Shouldn't I see vertices.hpp also in the depend.make or something?

Any other tips/suggestions/questions are more more more than welcome since this has been annoying me for quite some time.

Thanks in advance,


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