[CMake] What about...

William A. Hoffman billlist at nycap.rr.com
Fri May 26 12:13:46 EDT 2006


At 12:02 PM 5/26/2006, frederic heem wrote:
>Actually, I wonder why CMAKE_VERBOSE_MAKEFILE  is not set to TRUE by default, 
>each time, I have to set it manually and I find it quite annoying.
It is a matter of taste.  Some folks like to see pages and pages of output even
if it builds nothing.  Some folks only want to see what is being compiled and
do not care about how it is being compiled.   I think it is usually developers
that like to see everything, and they are more likely to know how to change
a setting.   But users that just want to build the software, only want to build
it and don't really care what is going on.  It was felt that there are more
users than developers, so that is why the default is off.  

-Bill



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