[CMake] Source file symlinks on out-of-source builds

[Andreas Pakulat]

On 03.12.09 20:23:36, Rodolfo Lima wrote:
> John Drescher escreveu:
> > install screen
> 
> Thanks for the tip but that's not my point in this whole thread (i.e.
> I'm not looking for solutions, I'm giving one).
> 
> CMake does so much complicate things to make working with software
> projects a seamless experience across different platforms that I doubt
> that automatically managing a symlink tree is such a huge effort.
> 
> You know, there's workarounds for everything. Before cmake I wrote a gcc
> wrapper to make its output look like what cmake does to it. If this
> wasn't implemented in cmake and I come up with this idea, people would
> say "but you can write a wrap to gcc to filter its output, why bother?".
> 
> That's how I see some suggestions in this thread. IMHO cmake came to be
> when people were sick of workarounds (like autotools) to manage
> projects. So why resort to workarounds like we used to do when better,
> seamless solutions exist? (I'm talking in the point of view of someone
> that doesn't use IDE's).

Well, IMHO adding symlinks for source files to a _buildtree_ is exactly
such a workaround. Its a workaround for editors (or users) that are not
capable of editing in one dir and running make in a different dir.

Andreas

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