[CMake] COMPILE_FLAGS suggestion

[Brandon J. Van Every]

Brad King wrote:
> Brandon J. Van Every wrote:
>
>> items in a PROPERTIES list have to come in pairs.  I humbly submit 
>> that the following syntax would be of great use to people:
>>
>> SET_COMPILE_FLAGS(file -DBLAH -DBLLAH -DBLLAAHH)
>>
>
> We cannot add a command for every property.
The question is what are perceived to be the common ones.  Since you 
only implemented per-target flags recently, your perception is probably 
that it's uncommon.  Instead you're probably thinking that everyone 
makes *.h files and subdirectories.  For those of us coming from other 
build regimes, our perception is it's an exceedingly common operation.  
I also question why you "can't" add a command for every property.  It 
might in fact make sense to do that for many of them, i.e. 
SET_WHATEVER.  I suppose time will tell as other users ask for things.


Cheers,
Brandon Van Every