[cmake-developers] Introducing: message(DEBUG)

[Rolf Eike Beer]

> On 3/3/2012 5:25 AM, Rolf Eike Beer wrote:
>> +  else if (*i == "DEBUG")
>> +    {
> ...
>> +    status = true;
>
> Rather than being a conditional version of STATUS I think full stack
> information is useful for debugging.  Add to the cmake::MessageType
> enumeration a DEBUG value and teach cmake::IssueMessage to handle it.
> The output should look like an error or warning but with "CMake Debug"
> as the header instead of "CMake Error" or "CMake Warning".

I would like to have that switchable in some way. E.g. for Boost_DEBUG I
don't have stack traces at the moment, but the contents are the
information I need. Stacktraces are useful, but not always.

> Once the decision to display the message has a cmListFileBacktrace
> instance available for the context then you can have fancier rules
> for deciding what messages to display.

I don't think I fully understand what you are trying to say here.

Eike