Asking for a CMake feature

Michael Pyne michael.pyne at kdemail.net
Thu Apr 13 23:21:45 CEST 2006


On Thursday 13 April 2006 17:03, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> unsermake had a nice feature that when doing
> make install
> did only really install what had changed, that is quite important, because
> imagine you fix one header in kdelibs and do make install, ALL headers are
> installed and automatically all your programs want to start rebuilding
> because they think the header changed.
>
> If only the changed header is installed things rebuild much less and my
> productivity increases.
>
> So, please please please, can CMake devels make this happen?
>
> Albert
>
> P.D: This is all AFAIK, i've never been a buildsystem guru (well i'm really
> never been any sort of guru) so i can be wrong ;-)

No, you're right.  unsermake has this, and it is awesome.

Really, I guess what I want to know is how hard would it be to use CMake + 
unsermake together? i.e. use unsermake instead of make.

Regards,
 - Michael Pyne
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