[cmake-developers] [CMake 0015172]: Show progress during generation step

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The following issue has been SUBMITTED. 
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http://public.kitware.com/Bug/view.php?id=15172 
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Reported By:                Stephen Kelly
Assigned To:                
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Project:                    CMake
Issue ID:                   15172
Category:                   CMake
Reproducibility:            have not tried
Severity:                   minor
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     new
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Date Submitted:             2014-09-26 01:17 CEST
Last Modified:              2014-09-26 01:17 CEST
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Summary:                    Show progress during generation step
Description: 
CMake gives a lot of output during the configure step, but no output during the
generate step. As of the last few releases, CMake is doing more during the
generation stage to resolve transitive build properties, which can take more
time, so feedback could be more valuable.

CMake could show more output during the multiple stages of
cmGlobalGenerator::Generate quite easily, however, the granularity of that is
only the directory level. For the granularity of generating for individual
targets (if that is desirable/possible/practical), each of the concrete
generators would need to be modified to produce output. The output would have to
be the same for each generator so that it could be uniformly parsed.
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Issue History 
Date Modified    Username       Field                    Change               
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2014-09-26 01:17 Stephen Kelly  New Issue                                    
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