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, 

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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

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