[CMake] ALL_BUILD and ZERO_CHECK
Bill Hoffman
bill.hoffman at kitware.com
Mon Nov 24 13:05:27 EST 2008
Bill Hoffman wrote:
> Robert Dailey wrote:
>
>>
>> I'm pretty sure I can create a visual studio solution with a single
>> project that builds exactly what I'm having CMake build for me. When I
>> manually create this visual studio solution I never create a
>> ZERO_CHECK project or an ALL_BUILD project and everything works
>> perfectly fine.
>>
>> Having said that, I disagree with you in that it is essential for the
>> build to work. I would like to make a feature request that there be an
>> option in the future to disable the generation of the ZERO_CHECK and
>> ALL_BUILD projects.
> There are bugs and issues that we workaround in VS studio from time to
> time. It may not affect your project, but in general for depends and
> custom commands to work correctly ZERO_CHECK is required. Are these
> targets causing you trouble?
>
Oh yeah, one more thing. CTest uses ALL_BUILD to figure out how to
build a project. So, CTest would potentially be broken if that were
disabled.
-Bill
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