[cmake-developers] Generating buildsystem metadata from CMake

[Ben Boeckel]

On Mon, Apr 06, 2015 at 19:08:37 +0200, Stephen Kelly wrote:
> AFAICT, CMake does still know the command line in your output-target-flags-
> once-in-ninja branch. 
> 
> You just need to compute two outputs - once for writing the Ninja file 
> (containing variables), and again for writing the content for the metadata 
> (not containing variables), right?

Yes; I forget how much time was saved by not dealing with them at all.
Though if that path is only taken if this file is needed, it seems like
all the time required for this file may be more than the time saved
there anyways.

Thanks,

--Ben