Re: [CMake] VMWare on SCons' future

2008-03-04 Thread Brandon Van Every
On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 2:30 AM, Jesper Eskilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brandon Van Every wrote: On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 6:06 PM, Brandon Van Every [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.nabble.com/SCons-Future-Directions-and-Thoughts-td15176258.html you can learn tons

Re: [CMake] Lua in a nutshell

2008-03-04 Thread Brandon Van Every
The One True Build Language at all; they might be amenable to the one true build engine. Someone like Sun could dump money into making a lot of options work well together. That's what these big companies love to do: go to war with competing Virtual Machines. Cheers, Brandon Van Every

Re: [CMake] cmake community site

2008-03-04 Thread Brandon Van Every
Kitware to see it as a profit center? Cheers, Brandon Van Every ___ CMake mailing list CMake@cmake.org http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake

Re: [CMake] Re: Raven, Antwrap, Buildr

2008-03-03 Thread Brandon Van Every
disproportionate to its size. How does a language or tool manage that? Early niches filled? Cheers, Brandon Van Every ___ CMake mailing list CMake@cmake.org http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake

[CMake] repeating conditional clauses

2008-03-03 Thread Brandon Van Every
comment, based on the if(clause). It would be a form of pretty printing. It would comment any conditionals that are more than 20 lines apart or whatever. if(blah) yadda(yadda) else #(NOT blah) badabim(badabang) endif # see blah Cheers, Brandon Van Every

Re: [CMake] Add lots of commands

2008-03-03 Thread Brandon Van Every
=416982 Cheers, Brandon Van Every ___ CMake mailing list CMake@cmake.org http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake

[CMake] VMWare on SCons' future

2008-03-03 Thread Brandon Van Every
anything. I don't think there are any competing proprietary tools? If I've overlooked something please let me know. Cheers, Brandon Van Every ___ CMake mailing list CMake@cmake.org http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake

[CMake] Re: VMWare on SCons' future

2008-03-03 Thread Brandon Van Every
On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 2:11 PM, Brandon Van Every [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: VMWare is a large commercial project. http://www.nabble.com/SCons-Future-Directions-and-Thoughts-td15176258.html My impression so far is that SCons appeals to a company that wants to program a customized build system

Re: [CMake] cmake community site

2008-03-03 Thread Brandon Van Every
for. That was no fun, and it never amounted to anything resembling professional production values. Cheers, Brandon Van Every ___ CMake mailing list CMake@cmake.org http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake

[CMake] Lua in a nutshell

2008-03-03 Thread Brandon Van Every
. Well, bytes, whatever. Cheers, Brandon Van Every ___ CMake mailing list CMake@cmake.org http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake

Re: [CMake] VMWare on SCons' future

2008-03-03 Thread Brandon Van Every
On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 3:07 PM, Brandon Van Every [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 2:11 PM, Brandon Van Every [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: VMWare is a large commercial project. http://www.nabble.com/SCons-Future-Directions-and-Thoughts-td15176258.html My impression so far

Re: [CMake] CMake and Lua

2008-03-03 Thread Brandon Van Every
On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 6:13 PM, James Mansion [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brandon Van Every wrote: Then probably that is because those projects use Ruby AND Python AND Tcl - so I have to have them anyway. Hey, lets all use C89. Everyone has that, right? What if it is just C/C

Re: [CMake] CMake and Lua

2008-03-02 Thread Brandon Van Every
technical solutions to some of these problems. Techies tend to overlook anything that isn't tech. Cheers, Brandon Van Every ___ CMake mailing list CMake@cmake.org http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake

[CMake] CMake and Lua = DSL!?

2008-03-02 Thread Brandon Van Every
a marketing and documentation standpoint, standard scripting languages are provably better than DSLs. Cheers, Brandon Van Every ___ CMake mailing list CMake@cmake.org http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake

[CMake] Raven, Antwrap, Buildr

2008-03-02 Thread Brandon Van Every
build problems, with different approaches than Raven. http://antwrap.rubyforge.org/ http://incubator.apache.org/buildr/ I intend to find out if any of these tools have been used for large projects, and if they exist, whether Ruby has demonstrated any remarkable advantages. Cheers, Brandon Van

[CMake] Re: Raven, Antwrap, Buildr

2008-03-02 Thread Brandon Van Every
On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 7:29 PM, Brandon Van Every [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2007/12/05/introducing-raven-an-elegant-build-for-java.html The comments following this article are interesting. For instance, on syntax: This is just stupid. The Ruby syntax

[CMake] Re: Raven, Antwrap, Buildr

2008-03-02 Thread Brandon Van Every
On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 7:46 PM, Brandon Van Every [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 7:29 PM, Brandon Van Every [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2007/12/05/introducing-raven-an-elegant-build-for-java.html The comments following this article

[CMake] Re: Raven, Antwrap, Buildr

2008-03-02 Thread Brandon Van Every
On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 9:22 PM, Brandon Van Every [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 7:29 PM, Brandon Van Every [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://incubator.apache.org/buildr/ A review of Buildr http://danielroop.com/blog/2007/08/25/buildr-review/#more-50 Says that Buildr

Re: [CMake] Re: CMake and Lua

2008-03-01 Thread Brandon Van Every
filing bugs about these things can be helpful. If enough people file the bugs, then the pattern will become clear, and I imagine things will be addressed. Either by fixing them or migrating to Lua. Cheers, Brandon Van Every ___ CMake mailing list CMake

[CMake] CMake and Lua

2008-03-01 Thread Brandon Van Every
on, at some point, if the migration tools have been thoroughly tested and proven in the field. Cheers, Brandon Van Every ___ CMake mailing list CMake@cmake.org http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake

Re: [CMake] CMake and Lua

2008-03-01 Thread Brandon Van Every
On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 7:08 PM, Brandon Van Every [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Especially in open source, I think it is reasonable to make developers do trivial amounts of work to move on, at some point, if the migration tools have been thoroughly tested and proven in the field. I did

Re: [CMake] Re: CMake and Lua

2008-02-29 Thread Brandon Van Every
have to modify both ELSE() and ENDIF(). That's not unmaintainable, that's forced maintenance. Compilers give warnings and throw errors, it's no different. Cheers, Brandon Van Every ___ CMake mailing list CMake@cmake.org http://www.cmake.org/mailman

Re: [CMake] Re: CMAKE_ALLOW_LOOSE_LOOP_CONSTRUCTS TRUE by default

2008-02-29 Thread Brandon Van Every
the matching arguments then you are using LOOSE_LOOP_CONSTRUCTS by default. So folks who want it will get it, folks who do not will not get it, effectively automatically on a construct by construct basis. I agree that from a marketing standpoint, this makes sense. Cheers, Brandon Van Every

Re: [CMake] CMake and Lua

2008-02-28 Thread Brandon Van Every
there with Mozilla. Autoconf + GMake -- CMake is a much more difficult translation problem than CMake -- Lua. I know what is possible. Cheers, Brandon Van Every ___ CMake mailing list CMake@cmake.org http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake

Re: [CMake] CMake and Lua

2008-02-28 Thread Brandon Van Every
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 5:54 PM, Bill Hoffman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brandon Van Every wrote: Just suppose I am correct and it is not possible to write a good enough translator. Would you then still advocate dropping the cmake language? Of course not. That's why I said

Re: [CMake] CMake and Lua

2008-02-28 Thread Brandon Van Every
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 11:41 PM, Sebastien BARRE [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 2/28/2008 09:06 PM, Brandon Van Every wrote: So, I guess I will wait until then, and you can prove me wrong... Until then, can you give it a break? Sure. Long as you realize that not everybody shares

Re: [CMake] CMake and Lua

2008-02-28 Thread Brandon Van Every
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 12:11 AM, Sebastien BARRE [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 2/29/2008 12:03 AM, Brandon Van Every wrote: You've got a deal. I'll make sure to swing by Bill's office tomorrow and remind him about his realization. Let me write that down. On a post-it or something

Re: [CMake] Removing cmake as a dependancy

2008-02-28 Thread Brandon Van Every
this one. CMake is definitely not designed around this case use, it's designed around being part of the build. Cheers, Brandon Van Every ___ CMake mailing list CMake@cmake.org http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake

Re: [CMake] CMake and Lua

2008-02-27 Thread Brandon Van Every
. So, we might have two official languages someday, but no more than that. Cheers, Brandon Van Every ___ CMake mailing list CMake@cmake.org http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake

Re: [CMake] Python installation files on linux

2008-02-27 Thread Brandon Van Every
the version of a tool is contained in a .h file. In that case you'd use try_compile and write some C preprocessor commands to capture the output. Cheers, Brandon Van Every ___ CMake mailing list CMake@cmake.org http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake

Re: [CMake] CMake and Lua

2008-02-27 Thread Brandon Van Every
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 5:37 PM, Bill Hoffman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brandon Van Every wrote: I think if the automated translation tool had proven itself for a couple of years, it would be perfectly reasonable to force people to move on. So there is still that 2 year window

Re: [CMake] CMake and Lua

2008-02-27 Thread Brandon Van Every
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 8:58 PM, Bill Hoffman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brandon Van Every wrote: That's 2 cantankerous languages and a rather general problem domain. CMake script is a rather limited language. Not that hard to map it to Lua. I don't know, I have heard about people

Re: [CMake] Re: Re: IF( ${VAR} ) behaviour

2008-02-25 Thread Brandon Van Every
as {document, text} bugs, along with the exact words you think should be used. Cheers, Brandon Van Every ___ CMake mailing list CMake@cmake.org http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake

Re: [CMake] CMake and Lua

2008-02-25 Thread Brandon Van Every
of yours? I did not attend, but I read the schedule and noticed there were presentations for both CMake and SCons. Was it something the lecturers said? Audience questions? Cheers, Brandon Van Every ___ CMake mailing list CMake@cmake.org http://www.cmake.org

Re: [CMake] CMake and Lua

2008-02-25 Thread Brandon Van Every
CMake. This is a form of community fragmentation. Cheers, Brandon Van Every ___ CMake mailing list CMake@cmake.org http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake

Re: [CMake] Re: CMake and Lua

2008-02-25 Thread Brandon Van Every
. Small-to-medium sized projects are a documentation and marketing problem, not a technical problem. Cheers, Brandon Van Every ___ CMake mailing list CMake@cmake.org http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake

Re: [CMake] CMake and Lua

2008-02-25 Thread Brandon Van Every
lost their power at that time. Analogously, we'd forget about build systems and go into the West. We could speculate about who's the Dark Lord. By my demeanor I am surely an Uruk-hai captain. -) Cheers, Brandon Van Every ___ CMake mailing list CMake

Re: [CMake] CMake and Lua

2008-02-25 Thread Brandon Van Every
language features is that it's slow. Anyways, if someone could explain to me why Rake matters, I'd listen. Cheers, Brandon Van Every ___ CMake mailing list CMake@cmake.org http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake

Re: [CMake] CMake and Lua

2008-02-25 Thread Brandon Van Every
. CMake script -- Lua translation is certainly doable, but someone would have to do it, and it would be real work. Cheers, Brandon Van Every ___ CMake mailing list CMake@cmake.org http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake

Re: [CMake] CMake and Lua

2008-02-25 Thread Brandon Van Every
are packaged and nicely pre-deployed. I also suspect that the majority of developers would be less forgiving about the scattered, haphazard quality of the documentation that would inevitably result. Mr. Miyagi from The Karate Kid said something like, better to know 1 kick well. Cheers, Brandon Van

Re: [CMake] CMake and Lua

2008-02-24 Thread Brandon Van Every
of people who refuse to touch Lua. Trying to please everyone by technical means will result in marginal gains in popularity. A marketing campaign would get a lot more bang for the buck. Cheers, Brandon Van Every ___ CMake mailing list CMake@cmake.org

Re: [CMake] CMake and Lua

2008-02-24 Thread Brandon Van Every
. Cheers, Brandon Van Every ___ CMake mailing list CMake@cmake.org http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake

Re: [CMake] CMake and Lua

2008-02-24 Thread Brandon Van Every
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 12:56 PM, E. Wing [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/24/08, Brandon Van Every [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So are you going to write this framework for us, that makes all the work of supporting multiple languages magically go away? If you bothered actually reading my

Re: [CMake] CMake and Lua

2008-02-23 Thread Brandon Van Every
of execution size and speed. In short, I do not see value in trying to be all things to all people. That's an expensive way to do business. Cheers, Brandon Van Every ___ CMake mailing list CMake@cmake.org http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake

Re: [CMake] Get the drive from a path

2008-02-21 Thread Brandon Van Every
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 6:51 PM, Neal Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On windows I need a way to get a drive letter from a path. Does anybody have any tricks for doing this? Not a trick: string(REGEX MATCH ...) Cheers, Brandon Van Every ___ CMake

Re: [CMake] FindXXX, XXXConfig and UseXXX

2008-02-18 Thread Brandon Van Every
(XXX_FOUND) Cheers, Brandon Van Every ___ CMake mailing list CMake@cmake.org http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake

Re: [CMake] Re: function and raise_scope commands (+ unset bug)

2008-02-17 Thread Brandon Van Every
script does have an image problem. Keywords that don't exacerbate it would be better. I can't quite think of what PARENT_SCOPE really means to do, if parent directories are taken out of the equation. Maybe because it's almost 5 am. Cheers, Brandon Van Every

[CMake] Re: function and raise_scope commands (+ unset bug)

2008-02-17 Thread Brandon Van Every
think about the wordsmithing. I keep wanting to work the word 'call' or 'caller' in somehow. If you're altering the caller's variables, why not talk about the caller? Cheers, Brandon Van Every ___ CMake mailing list CMake@cmake.org http://www.cmake.org

Re: [CMake] [PATCH] add docbook support for cmake documentation

2008-02-17 Thread Brandon Van Every
people are paid to write docs (unlike here). Here's a semi-illuminating article on docbook vs. DITA. http://norman.walsh.name/2006/03/24/dita2006 If nothing else you should read it just to understand what docbook thinks it's on about. Cheers, Brandon Van Every

[CMake] can't build CMake CVS

2008-02-15 Thread Brandon Van Every
: __thiscall _bstr_t::Data_t::Data_t(char const *) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]@@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@Z) CMakeLib.lib Windows Vista, with the free VC8 compiler, using CMake 2.4.8 as the build tool, building CMake 2.4.8 works fine. Cheers, Brandon Van Every ___ CMake

Re: [CMake] CMake Feature list

2008-02-15 Thread Brandon Van Every
, Brandon Van Every ___ CMake mailing list CMake@cmake.org http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake

Re: [CMake] can't build CMake CVS

2008-02-15 Thread Brandon Van Every
Van Every ___ CMake mailing list CMake@cmake.org http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake

Re: [CMake] can't build CMake CVS

2008-02-15 Thread Brandon Van Every
bet it won't build with a Windows Server 2003 R2 SDK and free VC8. Cheers, Brandon Van Every ___ CMake mailing list CMake@cmake.org http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake

Re: [CMake] CMake Feature list

2008-02-15 Thread Brandon Van Every
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 12:32 PM, Bill Hoffman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brandon Van Every wrote: On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 9:59 AM, Bill Hoffman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/Really_Cool_CMake_Features I think the feature list is already adequate as a pitch

Re: [CMake] CMake Feature list

2008-02-15 Thread Brandon Van Every
(not), the feedback can only stimulate the CMake community and increase CMake's notoriety. Cheers, Brandon Van Every ___ CMake mailing list CMake@cmake.org http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake

Re: [CMake] @MY_VAR@ are replaced by empty string !

2008-02-13 Thread Brandon Van Every
for it to die with the error it's giving. I've filed bug http://cmake.org/Bug/view.php?id=6337 cmake -P crashes on configure_file. Are you using cmake -P or a CMakeLists.txt? Cheers, Brandon Van Every ___ CMake mailing list CMake@cmake.org http

Re: [CMake] ADD_CUSTOM_COMMAND Bug

2008-02-13 Thread Brandon Van Every
2008/2/13 Malhotra, Anupam [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Please notice that $(IntDir) is automatically changed to $(IntDir) in the actual post build setup. Can anyone please tell me if this is a bug in cmake? Looks like a bug to me. File it. Cheers, Brandon Van Every

Re: [CMake] Quoting, spaces in include paths, CMake input files generation, life, the universe and everything.

2008-02-12 Thread Brandon Van Every
into . If you were to string(REPLACE \\ out ${in}) for all your paths before performing the configure_file, I think you would solve the problem. Cheers, Brandon Van Every ___ CMake mailing list CMake@cmake.org http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake

[CMake] Mozilla and automatic Autoconf + GMake translation

2008-02-12 Thread Brandon Van Every
was unable to complete it for them. Volunteer open source developers could probably complete it, however. The translator is a big step in the right direction for tackling such a large build tree. Cheers, Brandon Van Every ___ CMake mailing list CMake@cmake.org

Re: [CMake] Problem in ADD_CUSTOM_COMMAND

2008-02-11 Thread Brandon Van Every
anymore. I think someone forgot to convert the paths to native Windows paths. Use file(TO_NATIVE_PATH path result) Cheers, Brandon Van Every ___ CMake mailing list CMake@cmake.org http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake

Re: [CMake] Wee question about CMake developer etiquette

2008-02-10 Thread Brandon Van Every
. In context it was probably appropriate. You are showing an unwillingness to agree to disagree, and you are forgetting your own statement that I mean well. Do you mean well? Cheers, Brandon Van Every ___ CMake mailing list CMake@cmake.org http

Re: [CMake] Wee question about CMake developer etiquette

2008-02-10 Thread Brandon Van Every
I apologized on the Lua list. ___ CMake mailing list CMake@cmake.org http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake

Re: [CMake] Wee question about CMake developer etiquette

2008-02-10 Thread Brandon Van Every
of words is material. You have also sought to explain me as Machiavellian. I acquiesced to that explanation in order to bring peace. Cheers, Brandon Van Every ___ CMake mailing list CMake@cmake.org http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake

Re: [CMake] converting VS projects to CMake

2008-02-09 Thread Brandon Van Every
to do is dive in and clean up the translation output. Cheers, Brandon Van Every ___ CMake mailing list CMake@cmake.org http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake

Re: [CMake] converting VS projects to CMake

2008-02-09 Thread Brandon Van Every
present the job to the client, and how you could better manage the risk of it succeeding or failing. Cheers, Brandon Van Every ___ CMake mailing list CMake@cmake.org http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake

Re: [CMake] converting VS projects to CMake

2008-02-08 Thread Brandon Van Every
On Feb 8, 2008 11:30 AM, Jesper Eskilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brandon Van Every wrote: Someone asked me the other day why CMake doesn't do this. I thought I gave him a reasonable answer, that it would be painful to do, and that CMake -- native is a much easier problem than native

Re: [CMake] converting VS projects to CMake

2008-02-08 Thread Brandon Van Every
with skepticism is an issue. Anyone else feel more bullish about this? Otherwise I guess it's not an open source problem. More a case of if I want it done right, I'll have to do it myself. Cheers, Brandon Van Every ___ CMake mailing list CMake@cmake.org

[CMake] converting VS projects to CMake

2008-02-08 Thread Brandon Van Every
changes its format every few years. Does MSVC pose any other special difficulties, other than sheer mind-numbingness of translation? Cheers, Brandon Van Every ___ CMake mailing list CMake@cmake.org http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake

Re: [CMake] Multiple toolchains in one CMakeList?

2008-02-05 Thread Brandon Van Every
On Feb 5, 2008 2:15 PM, Hendrik Sattler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Dienstag 05 Februar 2008 schrieb Brandon Van Every: On Feb 5, 2008 11:08 AM, Hendrik Sattler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Brandon Van Every [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Feb 5, 2008 10:05 AM, John Spray [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [CMake] 4th Edition CMake book now in stock

2008-02-05 Thread Brandon Van Every
. A CMake newbie needs enough free documentation to become an intermediate user. After that, they can choose to RTFM, grep sources, read mailing list archives, or buy books. I don't think they need to get everything that anyone would ever write about CMake for free. Cheers, Brandon Van Every

Re: [CMake] 4th Edition CMake book now in stock

2008-02-05 Thread Brandon Van Every
On Feb 5, 2008 6:49 PM, Alan W. Irwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2008-02-05 17:08-0500 Brandon Van Every wrote: On Feb 5, 2008 4:28 PM, Alan W. Irwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I looked at that site, and there was no mention of an electronic (PDF) version. I far prefer that format since

Re: [CMake] Running shell scripts...

2008-02-03 Thread Brandon Van Every
, Brandon Van Every ___ CMake mailing list CMake@cmake.org http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake

Re: [CMake] Win32 Executable.

2008-02-01 Thread Brandon Van Every
AND CMAKE_CFG_INTDIR STREQUAL /Debug) # use this style for all add_executable calls add_executable(foo ${wingui} blah.c etc.c) Cheers, Brandon Van Every Surya ___ CMake mailing list CMake@cmake.org http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake

Re: [CMake] Unexpected behavior testing boolean expressions

2008-01-31 Thread Brandon Van Every
values. Cheers, Brandon Van Every ___ CMake mailing list CMake@cmake.org http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake

Re: [CMake] Unneeded escaping: how to stop it?

2008-01-30 Thread Brandon Van Every
as specified no matter the build tool used. Note that one level of escapes is still used by the CMake language processor before ADD_CUSTOM_TARGET even sees the arguments. Cheers, Brandon Van Every ___ CMake mailing list CMake@cmake.org http://www.cmake.org

Re: [CMake] problem setting CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE and CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX

2008-01-29 Thread Brandon Van Every
, there was no known solution. Unless the latest greatest MSVC is doing something different. Cheers, Brandon Van Every ___ CMake mailing list CMake@cmake.org http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake

Re: [CMake] $ENV usage and documentation

2008-01-29 Thread Brandon Van Every
give the 1..2 sentences necessary, and someone else goes through the bother of getting it into the docs. I think that's as it should be, since for such small changes, constructing and applying patches is useless overhead for all parties. Cheers, Brandon Van Every

Re: [CMake] Including existing make files into cmake

2008-01-29 Thread Brandon Van Every
works fine, the only pain is that I have to edit the build.make file every time I re-run the cmake command. The question is, how can this be automated by cmake commands? string(REGEX REPLACE ...) Cheers, Brandon Van Every ___ CMake mailing list CMake

Re: [CMake] Unneeded escaping: how to stop it?

2008-01-28 Thread Brandon Van Every
on. Cheers, Brandon Van Every ___ CMake mailing list CMake@cmake.org http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake

Re: [CMake] $ENV usage and documentation

2008-01-28 Thread Brandon Van Every
On Jan 28, 2008 12:16 AM, Alan W. Irwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2008-01-27 22:28-0500 Brandon Van Every wrote: On Jan 27, 2008 8:34 PM, Alan W. Irwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to be able to read arbitrary environment variables from within cmake. The 2.4.8 documentation

Re: [CMake] problem setting CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE and CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX

2008-01-28 Thread Brandon Van Every
an exceptionally good reason to. Cheers, Brandon Van Every ___ CMake mailing list CMake@cmake.org http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake

Re: [CMake] $ENV usage and documentation

2008-01-27 Thread Brandon Van Every
() docs. Cheers, Brandon Van Every ___ CMake mailing list CMake@cmake.org http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake

Re: [CMake] Unneeded escaping: how to stop it?

2008-01-27 Thread Brandon Van Every
are interpreted as -L${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/lib\ -ldl (watch the escaping of the (space)). Did you try VERBATIM? Cheers, Brandon Van Every ___ CMake mailing list CMake@cmake.org http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake

Re: [CMake] CMake 2.4.5 errors on code which works fine in 2.4.7

2008-01-24 Thread Brandon Van Every
On Jan 24, 2008 2:50 PM, Andreas Pakulat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any ideas how to solve this (besides upgrading cmake)? Quotes? Cheers, Brandon Van Every ___ CMake mailing list CMake@cmake.org http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake

Re: [CMake] Why SET() not support regular expression ?

2008-01-23 Thread Brandon Van Every
this? file(GLOB var pattern) simply outputs a variable var. So you are talking about determining arbitrary program execution based on the value of the var. In practice I don't see how you'd cleanly separate that. Cheers, Brandon Van Every ___ CMake mailing

Re: [CMake] VS makefiles

2008-01-23 Thread Brandon Van Every
them. Since none of the more recent VS versions understand Makefiles, it makes sense that the capability is not supported for the rather old VS 6.0 generator. Cheers, Brandon Van Every ___ CMake mailing list CMake@cmake.org http://www.cmake.org/mailman

Re: [CMake] Re: Custom build step

2008-01-21 Thread Brandon Van Every
On Jan 21, 2008 6:16 AM, pepone. onrez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SET ( COPY_FILE cp -v ) Better: ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E copy Type cmake -E for details of OS portable commands. Your example build fails on Cygwin with the same problem. Cheers, Brandon Van Every

Re: [CMake] Re: Custom build step

2008-01-21 Thread Brandon Van Every
On Jan 21, 2008 7:40 AM, Brandon Van Every [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 21, 2008 6:16 AM, pepone. onrez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SET ( COPY_FILE cp -v ) Better: ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E copy Type cmake -E for details of OS portable commands. Your example build fails on Cygwin with the same

Re: [CMake] Re: Custom build step

2008-01-21 Thread Brandon Van Every
On Jan 21, 2008 8:39 AM, Brandon Van Every [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: then ADD_DEPENDENCIES(mylib DEPENDS blah). Er, add_dependencies(mylib blah). Cheers, Brandon Van Every ___ CMake mailing list CMake@cmake.org http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [CMake] Re: Custom build step

2008-01-19 Thread Brandon Van Every
On Jan 19, 2008 11:50 AM, pepone. onrez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Case 2 - i don`t see that Cmake generated any rule for the second commands. Did you grep all the files in the generated CMake tree? Perhaps they were output to a different file. Cheers, Brandon Van Every

Re: [CMake] Re: Custom build step

2008-01-19 Thread Brandon Van Every
the behavior you're trying to implement, without all the fancy extra logic. Cheers, Brandon Van Every ___ CMake mailing list CMake@cmake.org http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake

Re: [CMake] Re: add_custom_command dependencies in an auxiliary variable

2008-01-18 Thread Brandon Van Every
On Jan 18, 2008 4:59 AM, Rodolfo Lima [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brandon Van Every escreveu: The dependencies of an add_custom_command are completely under your control anyways. You specify them. Why don't you just re-specify them in your command? It's a bit burdensome when

Re: [CMake] adding static library when building static library

2008-01-18 Thread Brandon Van Every
On Jan 18, 2008 1:50 PM, Brandon Van Every [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Check the FAQ and the mailing list archives for more info on this issue. Sorry, the FAQ doesn't have any clear statement on the static lib inside a static lib issue. It does talk about so-called convenience libraries a bit

Re: [CMake] add_custom_command as target

2008-01-17 Thread Brandon Van Every
, Brandon Van Every ___ CMake mailing list CMake@cmake.org http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake

Re: [CMake] add_custom_command as target

2008-01-17 Thread Brandon Van Every
, Dependencies listed with the DEPENDS argument may reference files and outputs of custom commands created with ADD_CUSTOM_COMMAND. Cheers, Brandon Van Every ___ CMake mailing list CMake@cmake.org http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake

Re: [CMake] add_custom_command dependencies in an auxiliary variable

2008-01-17 Thread Brandon Van Every
make does that with $^ (i think). Something similar with the output file name would be good (like $@ in gnu-make). The dependencies of an add_custom_command are completely under your control anyways. You specify them. Why don't you just re-specify them in your command? Cheers, Brandon Van Every

Re: [CMake] My dammed problem with OSX and Qt

2008-01-16 Thread Brandon Van Every
linker always prefers dynamic libs problem. Search the mailing list archives for that. Cheers, Brandon Van Every ___ CMake mailing list CMake@cmake.org http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake

Re: [CMake] My dammed problem with OSX and Qt

2008-01-16 Thread Brandon Van Every
On Jan 16, 2008 12:45 PM, Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A Dimecres 16 Gener 2008, Brandon Van Every va escriure: I wonder if this is the Apple linker always prefers dynamic libs problem. Search the mailing list archives for that. I have this: add_library(${plugin

Re: [CMake] Patch to apply! Changing the default nameCMakeLists.txt! Introduction to Common Build System

2008-01-15 Thread Brandon Van Every
? If so, that's already what CMake is trying to do. We don't want a common build tool, we think we are the common build tool. We would want a generator for SCons or Ant or whatever. Cheers, Brandon Van Every ___ CMake mailing list CMake@cmake.org http

Re: [CMake] Patch to apply! Changing the default nameCMakeLists.txt! Introduction to Common Build System

2008-01-15 Thread Brandon Van Every
On Jan 15, 2008 11:46 AM, Andreas Pakulat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 15.01.08 11:37:12, Brandon Van Every wrote: I'm unclear. What is the strategic purpose of CBS? If I understood correctly, the purpose is to (at some point) build foobar, including all deps completely with cbs

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