[CMake] Determine which files have changed during a CMake run

[Craig Scott]

Does "ninja -d explain" tell you what you need?

On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 5:34 AM, Michael Jackson <
mike.jackson at bluequartz.net> wrote:

> Is there a way to determine which files in my build directory have changed
> for a given run of CMake? The use case is that I made what I thought was a
> small change to my configuration using cmake and when I went to build it
> was basically a full recompile. During our cmake run we do use
> configure_file(...) to generate headers and sources some of which basically
> get included in every source file. I am thinking that I have a dependency
> on generating those files when I probably do not have to.
>
> I use Ninja as my build system if that helps. I could always just hack a
> local git repo for the build folder, commit everything, run cmake and see
> what got changed. Anybody have a better idea?
>
> Thanks
>
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> Mike Jackson  [mike.jackson at bluequartz.net]
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Craig Scott
Melbourne, Australia
https://crascit.com
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