[CMake] CMAKE_USE_RELATIVE_PATHS

[Bill Hoffman]

barcaroller wrote:
> "Eric Noulard" wrote:
> 
>> What is the final reason that makes you want to avoid the "monstrosities"?
> 
> I do not want the __FILE__ macro to reveal the structure of the project.
> Also, I'm trying to keep the log file entries short.
> 
> I guess I can wrap __FILE__ with another macro that extracts relative
> pathnames, but I was hoping to just use cmake's CMAKE_USE_RELATIVE_PATHS
> since it is available.
> 

I see, sorry....   It is really hard to make everything work with 
relative paths, and you don't get that much out of it, except lots of 
maintenance issues and corner cases that do not work...  Sounds like 
doing it from the C/C++ code would be the best way for you to go.


-Bill