Thanks John, Indeed there is one and this is certainly part of the problem. We also found out that using "configure_file" to copy files can generate large rebuild of the entire makefile structure. We will have to look into this. Best regards,
Federico Carminati CERN-PH 1211 Geneva 23 Switzerland Tel: +41 22 76 74959 Fax: +41 22 76 68505 Mobile: +41 76 487 4843 On 17 Feb 2011, at 14:05, John Drescher wrote: >> apologies for the stupid question. I have a large project and at times a >> change triggers unexpected consequences, i.e. very large recompilations, >> rebuild of the cmake makefiles and so on. Is there a way in cmake to >> understand why things happens? I mean which chain of dependencies causes a >> given action to be taken? It would be for me very interesting to understand >> something more about the dependencies in my project, to be able to reduce >> them. Thanks and best regards, >> > Are you generating header files in CMake? If so these change on every > invocation of CMake? And is a lot of your project dependent on these > header files? > > John _______________________________________________ Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake
