[cmake-developers] Depends information in buildsystem files

[Stephen Kelly]

Brad King wrote:

> The full solution is to refactor things enough that a new kind of
> try_compile can be implemented.  It should push the configuration
> process state on a stack, run more CMake code in the isolated state
> to add some targets, and then generate the build system for them
> directly out of the temporary configuration state.  Finally the
> configuration stack would be popped back to the try_compile call and
> the result variable would be set.  This would allow the full state
> of the main project to be used for generation of a try_compile,
> including imported targets.

Just to tie things together, this came up before:

 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.programming.tools.cmake.devel/3615/focus=5180

Thanks,

Steve.