[cmake-developers] Quiet option for cmake

[Brad King]

On 08/21/2018 05:04 PM, Craig Scott wrote:
> A user has recently been asking about reducing the output coming from a
> FetchContent population when nothing needs to be done
> Because this is implemented as a sub-build, you always see the following
> 
> -- Configuring done
> -- Generating done
> -- Build files have been written to: ...

Isn't that output coming from the invocation here:

  https://gitlab.kitware.com/cmake/cmake/blob/v3.12.1/Modules/FetchContent.cmake#L776-781

rather than inside ExternalProject?

Why is that output not always captured?

-Brad