[cmake-developers] ninja command line options not propagated to ninja invocation for superbuild projects

[Nicolas Desprès]

On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 5:18 PM, Brad King <brad.king at kitware.com> wrote:

> On 01/28/2016 11:04 AM, Taylor Braun-Jones wrote:
> > Is this expected behavior, a known bug, or a new bug that I should file?
>
> Currently it is expected, but I don't think anyone has thoroughly
> investigated it or tried to implement it.  IIRC it works in Makefile
> generators only because the make tool does it under the hood when
> one uses $(MAKE) in a makefile to run another make.  It is a feature
> of the build tool itself, not of CMake.  Unless Ninja offers some
> equivalent it may not be possible.
>
> Unfortunately, Ninja won't offer it:
https://github.com/ninja-build/ninja/pull/1079

-- 
Nicolas Desprès
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