cmake problem: dependencies are not updated until make is re-run

[William A. Hoffman]

At 04:34 AM 5/22/2006, David Faure wrote:
>I have seen this problem multiple times, but I'm not sure something can be done about it...
>Basically the first time "make" is run, if it triggers a cmake run, then the new dependencies
>are not taken into account. They are only when running make again.
>
>Example: branches/work/kdelibs4_snapshot was just updated with 2 weeks worth
>of trunk/KDE/kdelibs changes, including the renaming of the ksortablevaluelist.h header. Typing make gave:
>make[2]: *** No rule to make target `/d/kde/src/4/kdelibs4_snapshot/kdecore/ksortablevaluelist.h', needed by `kdeui/tests/CMakeFiles/kcomboboxtest.dir/kcomboboxtest.o'.  Stop.
>
>Typing make again gave:
>[...]
>Dependee "/d/kde/src/4/kdelibs4_snapshot/kdecore/ksortablevaluelist.h" does not exist for depender "kdeui/tests/CMakeFiles/kcompletiontest.dir/kcompletioncoretest.o".
>[...]
>and this time there was no problem.
>
>Is this a problem like "make launches cmake which regenerates makefiles but then make
>doesn't use the new makefiles"? iirc there are solutions to this problem in general but I forgot
>which, I think coolo knows more.

CMake should handle this it uses recursive make calls to make sure the makefiles are re-read.
We will try to reproduce this and fix the problem.

-Bill