Hi David, thanks for your help and suggestions!
> From: David Cole [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Donnerstag, 28. April 2011 19:57 > Subject: Re: [CMake] Triggering individual steps of externalproject_add add cmake time > > I would strongly encourage you to allow the download to occur at build time using > ExternalProject_Add. There's no need to make the configure step of CMake wait for a > download. The point only was to solve the .. ahem .. hen and egg problem I'm encountering at the first ever configure run. Configure of the project itself needs a certain structure of 3rd party stuff to be available - else it fails for this system, thus never creating a valid build structure in the first place. I definitely agree the configure step should be kept as minimal in its timewise requirements as possible, so once the general structure is present, subsequent calls to cmake would never have retriggered the download at configure time ;) Your suggestion actually is what I've implemented since and it works fine. Initially, the download occurs, after that the build process will keep data up to date. Thanks and best regards, Jan _______________________________________________ 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
