[CMake] RE: CMake 2.4.1/VC71 Why the wierd <project>.dir subdirs?

Brad King brad.king at kitware.com
Wed May 9 12:59:17 EDT 2007


Rob Mathews wrote:
> Seems pretty clear that it returns "<project>.dir" and sets
> IntermediateDirectory to it. Thus you would get
> 
> IntermediateDirectory=<project>.dir
> 
> and since Visual Studio interpretes that relative path as relative to
> the project dir, you get
> 
> <project>/<project>.dir/Debug
> <project>/<project>.dir/Release
> 
> etc on your disk. 
> 
> Which I continue to maintain is pointless. 

It is interpreted relative to the directory containing project.vcproj.
What if there is more than one .vcproj file in the same directory?

-Brad


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