Modular building of kde modules

Alexander Neundorf neundorf at kde.org
Thu Mar 19 21:49:13 GMT 2009


On Thursday 19 March 2009, Lubos Lunak wrote:
> On Wednesday 18 of March 2009, Parker Coates wrote:
> > For example, my app Killbots is quite happy to be built as part of the
> > KDEGames module. But to build it as a standalone app would require
> > adding some setup and dependency checks to the CMake file. These are
> > normally performed by the module level CMake file, so blindly
> > including them in my app would lead to double checks the majority of
> > the time.
>
>  I am not a cmake expert, but I thought results of checks were cached, so
> repeating them shouldn't matter?

That's correct. But it leads to more cmake script code in our repositories 
(i.e. it would look more crowded/complicated).

Alex




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