[CMake] CMake 2.2 dependency check skip

[Moreland, Kenneth]

The motion has been raised and seconded.  I have taken the liberty of adding a feature request to Kitware's issue tracker (Bug #2389).

-Ken 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alexander Neundorf [mailto:a.neundorf-work at gmx.net] 
> Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2005 12:44 AM
> To: Moreland, Kenneth
> Cc: ken.martin at kitware.com; david.cole at kitware.com; cmake at cmake.org
> Subject: RE: [CMake] CMake 2.2 dependency check skip
> 
> > Von: "Moreland, Kenneth" <kmorel at sandia.gov>
> >  
> > I should be clearer, too.  It is the first and second parts that I 
> > want to skip.
> >   
> > I agree that skipping the third part makes no sense whatsoever.  I 
> > also agree that by default the second part, and probably the first 
> > part, should be included by default every time you run make.  Is 
> > skipping the first part new to CMake 2.2?  I could have sworn that 
> > with CMake 2.0 I was able to change CMakeLists.txt in a 
> subdirectory 
> > and see the effect by running make there.
> >   
> > Anyway, 90% of the time when I run make, I have made just a little 
> > change to a source file and I want to refresh the binaries. 
>  Most of 
> > the time I know that the dependencies have not changed so I 
> don't want 
> > to take the time to have my build system reconfigure them.
> >   
> > Of course, the problems you bring up, Ken, are all valid.  This 
> > argument of what dependency checks should be run could quickly turn 
> > into a religious war.  That is why I'm all for your 
> suggestion of the 
> > all_nocheck/all_nodepend targets.
>  
> I completely agree. 
> By default all the checks should be included, as it is now. 
> But it would be nice if there was a target to skip these 
> checks. I'm not sure if it makes sense to provide two 
> different flavours: all_nocheck and all_nodepend.  
> So a "quick&dirty" target would be nice, and please make sure 
> it is also easy to type (e.g. "nodep" and "nocheck", and 
> please without "_") 
>  
> Bye
> Alex 
>  
> 
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