[CMake] Should changing, adding or removing add_definitions call trigger a recompile of affected files

[Philip Lowman]

This is a known problem.  Visual Studio has no way of knowing that the 
compiler flags changed in a project file CMake is writing to.

I would love to see a patch for this for CMake 2.8.

...... Original Message .......
On Tue, 9 Dec 2008 10:38:22 -0700 "James Bigler" <jamesbigler at gmail.com> 
wrote:
>I'm using CMake 2.6.3R5 on WinXP 64 using VS 2005 building a 32 bit binary.
>
>When I changed a CMake option it removed a call to add_definitions.  The 
flags used to compile the project now changed.  I thought I remember (and 
perhaps this was when I was using Makefiles more), that it should trigger a 
compile on the files that are now out of date.
>
>After configuring from cmake-gui, I clicked generate and the project 
reloaded.  It started to compile, but everything was up to date. ???
>
>Is this the intended behavior?  I thought it used to cause recompiles of 
the affected files.
>
>Thanks,
>James
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