[CMake] Builds slow as they go

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Wednesday 16 December 2009, Phil Smith wrote:
> As Hawkeye said in the Second City version of Last of the Mohicans, "Me
> lie, big deal". Turns out I'd munged the path and have been using 2.6 all
> this time. Upgrading to 2.8 *did* make a *huge* difference, like 60% or so.
> Cow-orker had lied when he said he'd upgraded :-(
>
> Thanks!

Cool, so it works ok now for you ?

Alex


> ...phsiii
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alexander Neundorf [mailto:a.neundorf-work at gmx.net]
> Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2009 3:28 PM
> To: cmake at cmake.org
> Cc: Phil Smith
> Subject: Re: [CMake] Builds slow as they go
>
> On Thursday 19 November 2009, Phil Smith wrote:
> > Our build is on the order of 400 modules. It starts off very briskly and
>
> You mean like 400 targets, where the later ones depend on the earlier ones
> ? Maybe there's a lot of dependency scanning going on.
> Did you try cmake 2.8.0 ? This got faster there.
> Another option would of course be to try to reduce the dependencies.
>
> Alex