[CMake] changing the cmake color scheme

[Abe Bachrach]

Thanks for the pointers, I'll try that... is there any logic/rational behind
the developers choosing red for linking?? I would think that red should be
reserved for errors... and doubly strange that errors are reported in
black...

should this be submitted as a "bug report"/feature request?

-=Abe



On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 9:17 AM, David Cole <david.cole at kitware.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 8:51 AM, Michael Hertling <mhertling at online.de>wrote:
>
>> On 09/04/2010 02:32 AM, Abe Bachrach wrote:
>> > Hi there,
>> > is there a way to change the color scheme that cmake uses while
>> building??
>> >
>> > I would rather not have the message for linking be red, since this
>> > immediately makes me think there was an error.
>>
>> As Eric has pointed out in the meantime, those colors are hardcoded
>> in the CMake code base, but - if on *nix - look at the following:
>>
>> ADD_CUSTOM_TARGET(red2yellow ALL
>>    COMMAND find ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR} -name build.make
>>            -exec perl -pi -e "s/--red/--yellow/" "{}" "\;")
>>
>> Placed in the top-level CMakeLists.txt, this custom target tweakes the
>> concerned Makefiles to present the linking message in a beautiful but
>> unreadable yellow. ;) If it doesn't luckily execute as the very first
>> target, you could resort to CMake's ordinary dependency mechanism.
>>
>> Yours colorfully,
>>
>> Michael
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>
> But watch out if any of your file names have "--red" in them......
>
> :-)
>
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