[cmake-developers] QtAutoGenerators output in Ninja

[Brad King]

On 07/12/2016 06:58 AM, Kevin Funk wrote:
>> 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?

The message could be moved in to the comment field of the custom command
generated for this.  That should cause the Makefile generators to add
an echo for it and the Ninja generator to not show it.

-Brad