[CMake] makefile to CMakeLists.txt, possible?

[Mike McQuaid]

On 2 Sep 2010, at 08:15, Chiheng Xu wrote:

> CMake is a very great tool.    But its drawback is also obvious.    It
> will consume large amount of time to generate Makefiles every time you
> want to build,  especially for ultra large projects.   Building can be
> parallelized, but the CMaking, like runing configure scripts, can't be
> parallelized.   So, the "caching" of Makefiles seems benefitial  for
> current and future mutil-cores systems.
> 
> Normal developers seldomly touch CMakeLists.txt.  So,  in very rare
> condition, you need to regenerate the Makefiles.

That's why the files are cached on your local machine. I've seen some pretty huge CMake projects and I've never seen it take more than a few minutes to generate the Makefiles. I don't see why you have to keep them in version control.

Most projects I've worked on don't keep any generated files in version control, be it from the makefile generator, code generator or binary files. 

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