[CMake] Rerun CMake partially in Visual Studio

[Bill Hoffman]

On 7/23/2015 8:45 AM, David Cole via CMake wrote:
> Nope.
>
> CMake has no way of knowing whether you have logic in the lower level
> CMakeLists file which affects later included projects, or which might
> even possibly affect global (top level project) CMakeCache settings.
> Without adding facilities to track such interconnections, the entire
> tree from the top level down must be re-processed to figure out what
> to generate.
That said, there is some work going on that might actually do this in 
the future.  Stephen Kelley is working on being able to save state and 
tell which parts have been touched.  This would be used for editors but 
would be useful for this type of thing as well.

-Bill


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