[CMake] make in a subdir takes ages.

[William A. Hoffman]

At 06:54 AM 5/26/2006, Thomas Zander wrote:
>Hiya,
>
>I'm using cmake in koffice and I work in a small library currently which 
>is located in a subdir and it depends on nothing else in the project.
>
>I'm highly annoyed that each time I type make cmake takes about a minute 
>before it actually decided what to do, thrashing my HD the whole time. 
>(filling all diskbuffers, and thus making the whole system slow for the 
>next 10 minutes)
>I'm guessing it looks at the whole project, but why is beyond me. Even if 
>there are dependencies; I cd-ed into that dir for a reason. I hate it 
>when software tries to be smarter than me.
>
>I would appreciate if the check-dependencies stuff was disabled by 
>default, where cmake would only check if the libraries it depends on 
>(thats in the CMakeLists.txt isn't it) exist; not if they are uptodate.

If you only want to build a target, then run make targetname/fast it will
skip all of the depend steps, and only build that target.

-Bill