[CMake] Multiple source directory scenario and cdt generator

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Wednesday 16 November 2011, Dan Kegel wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 9:43 AM, Alexander Neundorf
> 
> <a.neundorf-work at gmx.net> wrote:
> >> I suspect that the only way to make source code control
> >> plugins happy is to link to dummy projects like you
> >> do for the main source directory.
> >> And then there's no need for those individual source file links.
> > 
> > AFAIK svn etc. work only if you either build in-source, or in the
> > additional in-source project.
> > I.e. AFAIK it doesn't work in the build tree project.
> 
> Then don't.  

Don't what ?

> My users expect each top level source directory to

What is a top level source directory ?

> have a top level eclipse project connected to svn.  They will
> do all their svn and editing via those top-level source projects.
> They expect Eclipse to rebuild when they click "Build Project"
> in the build tree project, so the build tree project has to link
> to the source projects.

It does that, right ?
Or would you expect it do it in a different way ?
 
> I already posted a shell script that does this for my special case.
> I'm not quite sure how the cdt generator would figure out how
> what directories to create phony source projects for, but maybe
> it's something like

I'd go with the one link to each subproject.
So if you want a link, add a project() call to the respective CMakeLists.txt.

Alex