Re: [cmake-developers] Proposal to teach cmDepends to only take dependencies from the source tree

2015-12-14 Thread Attila Krasznahorkay
Dear All, I was hoping to get some feedback from the developers on which direction to take this in. As I wrote before, I'm happy to help. But I don't want to spend time on an implementation that people will not accept in the end. I'd like us to first agree on how the code should behave after

Re: [cmake-developers] Proposal to teach cmDepends to only take dependencies from the source tree

2015-12-09 Thread Ben Boeckel
On Wed, Dec 09, 2015 at 09:19:45 +0100, Attila Krasznahorkay wrote: > I myself am on the side of simplicity. Using regular expressions would > allow us to do what I want. But if >95% of the people using this new > possibility would use it exactly like I plan to, then implementing it > in a more

[cmake-developers] Proposal to teach cmDepends to only take dependencies from the source tree

2015-12-08 Thread Attila Krasznahorkay
Dear All, In our software infrastructure I now got to the point that in building "high level" packages/projects the CMake build spends a very noticeable amount of time in calculating the dependencies of source files. To give you a feel of the issue, in one example that I was profiling, I build

Re: [cmake-developers] Proposal to teach cmDepends to only take dependencies from the source tree

2015-12-08 Thread Ben Boeckel
On Tue, Dec 08, 2015 at 10:09:13 +0100, Attila Krasznahorkay wrote: > In the end I applied the following patch to CMake 3.4.1 locally to > speed it up for my use case very significantly. Of course this is not > a patch that could be applied to CMake for a general audience. But I > do think that if