Building and installing processes

[Andreas Pakulat]

Hi,

On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 12:28 AM, Aleix Pol <aleixpol at kde.org> wrote:
> Hi co-kdevelopers,
> Right now our IProjectBuilders have an IPB::build and an IPB::install.
> It works great, but it has some small integration problems for us
> (cmake).
>
> When you install, you first build then install, but cmake does first
> the build then build+install. So the first part can be omitted. Also
> this generates 2 output views so you don't get to see the warnings.

Why? I just looked at the code and CMakeBuilder::install only calls
MakeBuilder::install which merely runs "make install".
CMakeBuilder::install may also run cmake first and that would be a
possibly separate outputview, but thats a different thing already
IMHO.

So are you saying that the "install" action first runs
IProjectBuilder::build and then IProjectBuilder::install? Maybe thats
a bit too much dependency-management on our side and we should simply
drop it? After all a build-system is called a build-system because it
should take care of first building what needs to be built before
installing it anyway. I'd consider any buildsystem not doing this to
be broken.

Andreas