[CMake] Buggy progress reporting

[Bill Hoffman]

Gopala Krishna wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 2:29 AM, Bill Hoffman <bill.hoffman at kitware.com> wrote:
> 
>> The progress reporting only supports one make at a time in the build tree.
>>
>> -Bill
>>
> 
> Is there any documentation somewhere on how the percentage reporting
> is implemented ? If not it would really be helpful atleast to get a
> hint on which source files to look at. :)
> 
> 
No, not really, it uses a directory to communicate, and cmake -E 
cmake_progress_start.  If you grep for progress in the source tree and 
look at the Makefiles you can get the idea.  It is going to be very hard 
to make it work with more than one make in a tree.

-Bill