[cmake-developers] cmake build does too much work

Stephen Kelly steveire at gmail.com
Wed Dec 11 18:00:42 EST 2013


Matthew Woehlke wrote:

> I've been working on a project lately that isn't *that* massively large,
> but has an unusually high number of library and executable targets. One
> thing that's been bugging me is that any trivial change in a "lower
> level" library causes more than a hundred targets to be relinked, for no
> good reason I know of.

You opposed a sensible default for CMAKE_LINK_DEPENDS_NO_SHARED:

 https://www.mail-archive.com/cmake-developers@cmake.org/msg06169.html

I continue to consider the default value of that to be a mistake.

Thanks,

Steve.





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