[CMake] Make program arguments

Andreas Pakulat apaku at gmx.de
Mon Aug 18 16:17:06 EDT 2008


On 18.08.08 14:02:29, Moreland, Kenneth wrote:
> Is there a way to add arguments to the invocation of make?  In particular, I
> want to add the -j flag to do parallel compiles.  I tried setting the
> CMAKE_MAKE_PROGRAM variable to "/usr/bin/make -j8", but I get the following
> error when I try to compile.
> 
> CMake Error: Generator: execution of make failed. Make command was:
> /usr/bin/make\ -j8 "cmTryCompileExec/fast"
> 
> I'm pretty sure this used to work, but it seems to have stopped working in
> Cmake 2.6.

CMake doesn't really call make, you call make from the commandline in
the builddir you created so you can use any argument to make that you
want.

Andreas

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