2012/4/18 pellegrini <[email protected]>:
> Dear CMakers,
>
> I introduced recently a colleague of mine to the wonders of cmake. He has a
> problem that neither he or me could solve.
>
> When he cmakes and builds his project as root and builds subsenquently its
> project as himself the whole project is rebuilt even if
> nothing has been changed.
Building as root is evil and cmake try it hard to discourage the practice
by rebuilding over & over :-]
> I may be wrong but I think this is not an actual problem with cmake but
> rather a general property of make that do not consider only the
> timestamp but also the owner of a file and if one of these changes, the file
> is marked as having to be rebuild.
A nice idea suggested by Bill sometimes ago was to.
0) Create a pristine git repo
1) Add the source and an empty build dir to the repo
commit.
1) Build out of source in the build dir.
add+commit all thing in the build dir.
2) Try "make"
then git diff or git status in order to see what have changed.
>
> What do you think ? Would you see one way to escape from this feature ?
avoid building as root?
Why would he need to build as root in the first place?
Usually only the ultimate install step may need root privilege, and for that one
$ sudo make install
may be simple enough?
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