[cmake-developers] Directory for debug symbols

Brad King brad.king at kitware.com
Thu Aug 23 09:41:02 EDT 2012


On 08/23/2012 06:03 AM, Peter Kümmel wrote:
> But this way you end up with a redundant solution: PDB_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY
> and SYMBOL_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY do the same, PDB_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY can't be
> removed, and cmake gets polluted more and more.
> 
> I think at such points backward compatibility should be reconsidered,
> because it enforce us to be compatible with cmake versions which simply
> have some functionality not implemented.
> 
> On the other hand, updating cmake and absolutely nothing will break
> in existing cmake files, not even workarounds, is also a selling point
> for cmake.

Right.  That is why we created policies.  Please use PDB_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY
for now.

Thanks,
-Brad



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