If none of the developers sees any important issue with this proposal, I'll submit a feature request based on what has been discussed in the current thread.
Thanks all, On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 11:23 AM, Adolfo Rodríguez <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 11:17 AM, Kito Berg-Taylor <[email protected] > > wrote: > >> I would like to second this idea, because it would solve another problem >> I'm having regarding CMake and environment variables. >> > > Oh, now that you mention environment variables, I think I could also > benefit from that too! > > >> Not to mention that being able to set the default to -j4 would be useful >> for internal projects where it's known that all machines building the >> project will have uniform hardware specifications. >> >> -kito >> >> On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 9:46 AM, Eric Noulard <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > >> > > 2009/3/5 Adolfo Rodr?guez <[email protected]>: >> > > > Thanks Philip, >> > > > >> > > > I had considered the alias option before, but wanted to rule out >> that >> > > there >> > > > was no way of doing it the scope of a cmake project, however strange >> that >> > > > may sound. I will probably take that path now. >> > > >> > > Note that I find the idea of being able to pass generator-specific >> > > options/file >> > > to cmake as a good idea. It could be done via a cmake command line >> option >> > > >> > > cmake -G"Unix Makefiles" -Go"whatever option passed to the specific >> > > generator" >> > > >> > > the -Go flags may be used to pass on generator specific options to the >> > > generator itself. It may be used to pass some options such as the >> parallel >> > > build >> > > for the makefile generator or whatever fancy VisualStudio specific >> > > option to it etc... >> > > >> > > -Go <string> >> > > would be a placeholder which should be passed "as-is" to the generator >> > > which may implement it's own way to handle its specific options >> > > (more flags, file names containing things, etc...) >> > > >> > > the baseline would be that generator shall not require -Go string but >> "may" >> > > support specific options. >> > > >> > > Do you (all) think it's worth a feature request ? >> > > >> > > -- >> > > Erk >> > > >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 >> > > > > -- > Adolfo Rodríguez Tsouroukdissian > > Robotics engineer > PAL ROBOTICS S.L > http://www.pal-robotics.com > Tel. +34.93.414.53.47 > Fax.+34.93.209.11.09 > -- Adolfo Rodríguez Tsouroukdissian Robotics engineer PAL ROBOTICS S.L http://www.pal-robotics.com Tel. +34.93.414.53.47 Fax.+34.93.209.11.09
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