[cmake-developers] BISON_TARGET doesn't use CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR as WORKING_DIRECTORY

[Brad King]

On 1/8/19 6:44 AM, Brad King wrote:
> On 12/25/18 1:17 AM, Mingjie Xing wrote:
>> The BISON_TARGET will run bison command in CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR.
>>
>> So I just wonder whither it is better for  BISON_TARGET to use
>> CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR as WORKING_DIRECTORY.
> 
> Unfortunately this went unnoticed for years after the module was
> added.  Changing it now would require a policy.

See proposed policy here:

  https://gitlab.kitware.com/cmake/cmake/merge_requests/2774

-Brad