[cmake-developers] Adding an option for relative compiler invocations

[Stephen Kelly]

Michael Enßlin <michael at ...> writes:

> Over the last several decades, at least on the POSIX platform, it has
> become common practice to invoke compilers with relative file paths, and
> compilers have adopted to act accordingly. While the true culprit is the
> C standard's lax definition of __FILE__, I'm blaming cmake's unusual,
> absolute-path invocation behavior.

FYI:

 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.c++.isocpp.general/6088

Thanks,

Steve.