[cmake-developers] Generalized verbose option for cmake --build.

[Rolf Eike Beer]

Am Donnerstag, 18. Oktober 2018, 17:48:28 CEST schrieb Ray Donnelly:
> Hi CMake developers,
> 
> Why do I need to know the necessary verbose flag to make each back-end
> that cmake --build calls emit more information? If forces my build
> script to switch on the platform in a really ugly way for something
> I'd consider a very important feature (you already hardcode various
> things to enable cmake --build to work, so why not this as well?)
> Something like cmake --build --verbose would be good.

I had the same problem with our automated builds, and I solved this by simply 
passing

        -D CMAKE_VERBOSE_MAKEFILE=On

to the CMake run.

Eike
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