20.09.2016, 22:21, "Matthew Woehlke" <mwoehlke.fl...@gmail.com>: > On 2016-09-15 02:57, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: >> On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 12:05:15PM +0200, Stephen Kelly via Development >> wrote: >>> I want to understand Qbs and what it can do with a dynamic build graph >>> which CMake can't do. >> >> there is no such thing, as after full expansion the graph has to be >> static by definition (the output artifacts are expected to be >> deterministic, after all). > > I don't think that's actually true; it just has to *halt*. That is, you > can execute as many steps as you like that generate new build edges, as > long as *at some point* you end up with a static graph. > > CMake necessarily imposes that you can run exactly one iteration, but > I'm not aware of any theoretical reason you couldn't have an entire > chain of targets each of which don't know their outputs (which are the > inputs of the next in the chain) until you go to actually build them. > > For that matter, you can do that sort of thing with make, by having each > target depend on the previous one, and generate a new Makefile that is > used to build the next one.
More popular pattern: include generated makefile (e.g., depfile produced by GCC) into "master" makefile -- Regards, Konstantin _______________________________________________ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
