[CMake] How about a CMake debugger?

[Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin]

Hi Kent,

Matt started to work on a debugger last year, any contribution would be
welcome.
See https://github.com/thewtex/cmakedbg

Hth
Jc


On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 3:32 PM, Kent Williams <nkwmailinglists at gmail.com>wrote:

> As I'm now deep in tracing through 80K lines of cmake --trace output, man
> I'd love some sort of CMake debugger!
>
> Actually if you use Emacs you can kinda sorta do tracing -- run CMake with
> the --trace parameter in the compile bufffer (i.e. alt-x compile command)
> and then the Emacs next-error steps a line at a time through the trace
> output, just like a source debugger.
>
> But it doesn't give you the option of seeing the values of CMake
> variables, or to change them.
>
> I know this is asking for a major feature change, but CMake has grown up.
>  We now have multi-thousand-line CMake build systems, and the only
> debugging tool we have is MESSAGE()
>
>
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