[CMake] Making cmake automatically pick up changes to directory contents.

[Magnus Therning]

On Tue, Dec 03, 2013 at 11:21:17AM -0500, Bill Hoffman wrote:
> On 12/3/2013 8:58 AM, billw at billw.mail1.co.uk wrote:
>>> reasonable to expect them to manage enormous (1800+) file lists
>>> when we already have a directory structure in place the designates
>>> project file lists. Hence the GLOBing (my various Googlings for
>>> the issue shows that I'm definitely not the only one trying to
>>> work like this).

> Why not write a script that does the GLOB once and creates
> CMakeLists.txt files that have the explicit lists.  It is not like
> the developers will be adding/removing 1000s of files at a time.  It
> will be one or two files at a time, and you won't have to do any
> crazy stuff to get CMake to work with glob.   Once you have the
> cmake files with the explicit list it is done, and that part can be
> done with python/bat/cmake/ any scripting language.

With a proper editor you can even do while writing the CMakeLists.txt
file.

/M

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