[cmake-developers] Generating information for C++ tools in cmake (patch)

[Manuel Klimek]

Any news on this one? We're currently building more tools, so it would
be cool to know when we can expect this to be more easily available.
If there's more work to do on my side, I'm happy to see it through.

Thanks,
/Manuel

On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 10:22 AM, Manuel Klimek <klimek at google.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 9:16 AM, Brad King <brad.king at kitware.com> wrote:
>> On 04/25/2011 12:06 PM, Manuel Klimek wrote:
>>> On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 8:59 AM, Brad King <brad.king at kitware.com> wrote:
>>>> On 04/25/2011 11:54 AM, Manuel Klimek wrote:
>>>>> Is just putting IF(UNIX) ... around all the stuff enough for that?
>>>>
>>>> It's not just the test.  The C++ implementation cannot handle all
>>>> generators.  It should be taught to run only for generators where it
>>>> is known to work.  Perhaps it can check a value set by each platform
>>>> module.
>>>
>>> Ah, ok, I was thinking putting it around the exporting of the flag, so
>>> that you can only switch it on on supported platforms
>>
>> That approach may work.  It is up to the platform modules to present
>> the option when it can be implemented.  If that is just a few conditions
>> around a single place then great.
>>
>>> - as far as I
>>> can tell, the code still works on other platforms, the database is
>>> just not enough, right?
>>
>> The main problem is that some of the generators write syntax that is
>> specific to the make tool (e.g. NMake, Borland) directly into the
>> command line.  That syntax confuses any tool that wants to read it
>> from the database.
>
> Ok, I added
> IF(CMAKE_GENERATOR MATCHES "Unix Makefiles")
> to guard the export of the option, and
> IF(UNIX)
> to guard the execution of the test...
>
> Unfortunately I don't have non-unix systems to test on at the moment...
>
> I also reexported all my other patches rebased on current master head.
>
> Cheers,
> /Manuel
>