[cmake-developers] [patch] Document -H and -B

Dave Gittins dave.gittins at gmail.com
Thu Jun 30 17:35:32 EDT 2016


I don't understand the harm of documenting the options and making them
public. Brad can you explain?

I have worked with numerous colleagues who use them. So far nothing bad
happened to them!

Seems to me that they are
a) used
b) useful
c) safe

Is there context I am missing?

Dave
On 1 Jul 2016 7:31 a.m., "Ruslan Baratov via cmake-developers" <
cmake-developers at cmake.org> wrote:

> On 01-Jul-16 00:14, Shawn Waldon wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 5:10 PM, Ruslan Baratov <ruslan_baratov at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On 30-Jun-16 23:57, Shawn Waldon wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 4:54 PM, Ruslan Baratovwrote:
>>
>>> On 30-Jun-16 23:40, Brad King wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 06/30/2016 04:28 PM, Ruslan Baratov wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 30-Jun-16 23:18, Brad King wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 06/30/2016 03:56 PM, Ruslan Baratov wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> What is the public-use way to specify source-tree and build-tree by
>>>>>>> cmake options simultaneously?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> cd $build && cmake $src
>>>>>>
>>>>> Will not work if $build not exists.
>>>>>
>>>> mkdir -p "$build" && cd "$build" && cmake "$src"
>>>>
>>>
>>> Next issue is that this command change directory, how can I move back to
>>> the directory where I was working on?
>>
>>
>> mkdir -p "$build" && pushd "$build" && cmake "$src" && popd
>>>
>> Doesn't go back if `cmake "$src"` failed
>>
> I think Brad may have a better idea with the subshell.  But to modify this
> to work even if `cmake "$src"` failed:
>
> mkdir -p "$build" && pushd "$build" && cmake "$src"; popd
>
> > echo $?
> 0
>
> for the CMakeLists.txt with errors
>
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