[CMake] object file target

[Brandon Van Every]

On 7/30/07, Bill Hoffman <bill.hoffman at kitware.com> wrote:
> Brandon Van Every wrote:
> > On 7/30/07, Juan Sanchez <Juan.Sanchez at amd.com> wrote:
> >
> >> I didn't think to look on the make man page, since almost every gnu make
> >> system I dealt with had the verbose information by default.
> >>
> >> Doing a "man make" reveals nothing about "VERBOSE=1" since that is
> >> specific to cmake,
> >>
> >
> > No I'm googling and it's not specific to CMake.  Damned if I can find
> > documentation on it though.
> >
> >
> Although other systems may use make VERBOSE=1, this is certainly a CMake
> feature that was
> put into the makefiles by the CMake developers....

Shows my ignorance of Make then.  Setting VERBOSE=1 does appear to be
a common convention at any rate.  Was there some previous era where
almost everything in computerdom was done by passing environment
variables, and people didn't use command line flags so much?  Maybe
it's an anachronism, and some ancient manpage somewhere *does*
document a Make that expects to be controlled that way.


Cheers,
Brandon Van Every