I'll throw a "no" vote on that but what I would like to hear is some
more detail from Rodolfo explaining why he thinks he needs this? Have
you tried embedding the build directory inside the source directory?
Some of us use this type of setup and it seems to work really nicely
with IDEs, Text Editors, and the terminal?
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Mike Jackson www.bluequartz.net
On Dec 3, 2009, at 12:41 PM, Bill Hoffman wrote:
Rodolfo Lima wrote:
Hi people, I was thinking if it would be nice if cmake created
symlinks
on supported platforms of source files into CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR
when it differs from CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR. My only complaint
against
out-of-source builds is that the sources aren't around when I do
make.
This feature would help a lot.
Since I've got some time to spare, if this shows to be useful to more
people I could try to implement it and forward the patch upstream.
I am not sure I like this idea... :)
Tools like emacs and other build tools can be taught how to deal
with the sources not being right there. The symlinks will likely
be a pain to maintain. What happens when a file is removed in the
source tree? Who updates the symlinks? I guess every time CMake is
run it could remove them all, and recreate them. Or it could just
collect dead links... It sounds kind of complicated.
-Bill
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