[CMake] Fwd: Relative (source files) vs Absolute (include files) path

John Drescher drescherjm at gmail.com
Tue Feb 2 20:10:29 EST 2010


> Why I care:
>
> Lets say that I someone wants to check the Visual Studio project goop
> produced by CMake in trunk and check out in a diffrent directory in their
> branch on another machine.  With absolute paths sprinkled all over
> effectively makes this impossible.
>

Never put any generated parts (including cmake cache and the visual
studio project files) in the vcs. They are of no value outside of the
machine they are generated on.

John


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