cmake single file build issues

[Manuel Breugelmans]

On Monday 24 November 2008 18:09:28 Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> On 24.11.08 16:29:18, Manuel Breugelmans wrote:
> > This is does not work as expected, see
> > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=175994
> >
> > There's a couple more subtle issues with this code.
> > 1/ Now you can do README -> compile and it will try to run `make
> > README.o' 2/ The deletion code (m_deleteWhenDone cmakebuilder.cpp:91;111)
> > is not safe. It deletes a ProjectTargetItem in the event loop, the same
> > item that is exposed through the built(ProjectBaseItem*) signals. So
> > anyone accessing this is fooked.
> >
> > I think all 3 problems could be fixed with a 'FileTarget' in the project
> > model.
>
> The problem is that we don't really want the target in the model, or do you
> mean a mix of FileItem+TargetItem? I don't really see why that would be
> needed.
>
> I mean why can't the Makebuilder do the dirty work here? It gets a project
> item, so it can:
>
> - fetch the builddir for that item (which probably needs some fixing in
>   cmake manager)
> - run make item.name().replace(".cpp",".o")
>
> Where the replace would actually be configurable somehow (or use
> information about the compiler, msvc/mingw create .obj usually).
>

Currently this replace happens in cmakebuilder. Not sure if there was a 
particular reason for that. You'd have to ask aliex ... I'm not that bothered 
how these issues are solved, just reporting them. 


Manuel