[cmake-developers] BUG: ALL_BUILD not added to the PREDEFINED_TARGETS_FOLDER

[Nils Gladitz]

On 03/15/2016 08:27 AM, Petr Kmoch wrote:
> Hi Taylor,
>
> I am afraid this behaviour is by design, so that ALL_BUILD can be the 
> first target in the generated solution and thus the Startup project by 
> default.
>
> However (speaking to the wider list audience), I would really 
> appreciate an option to override this "by design" behaviour. For 
> projects which actually use the generated solutions in the IDE for 
> development and debugging (instead of just building it), ALL_BUILD is 
> useless as a startup project anyway, and it brings an inconsistency to 
> the Solution Explorer (not to mention the fact that it pushes to the 
> fore a CMake feature which is not really necessary in VS, irritating 
> "entrenched" Visual Studio users).
>
> Would a patch introducing such an override option be considered 
> acceptable?

Related changes were proposed and Brad didn't seem to object:
     https://cmake.org/Bug/view.php?id=15578
     https://cmake.org/Bug/view.php?id=15931

Just looks like no one got around to actually work on it.

Nils