[cmake-developers] QtAutoGenerators output in Ninja

Kevin Funk kfunk at kde.org
Tue Jul 12 06:58:32 EDT 2016


On Tuesday, July 12, 2016 10:43:52 AM CEST Daniel Pfeifer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> CMake currently puts messages like "Generating moc source" into the
> buildlog. This conflicts with the convention "no output == all good".

+1

> The messages blend nicely in the colorful output of Unix Makefiles,
> but when using the Ninja generator, they create quite some noise.

Indeed.

> How can this be improved?
> * remove the messages (no output == all good)
> * add an option to silence them
> * add an option to show them and hide them per default
> * ...

While it probably still makes sense to have it for Unix Makefiles; can we just 
disable this particular output in case Ninja files are used?

After all it's just a call to `cmake -E cmake_autogen`, right? Can we 
parameterize this call?

Just my 2 ct.

Cheers,
Kevin

> Cheers, Daniel


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Kevin Funk | kfunk at kde.org | http://kfunk.org
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