Handling updates to CMake files

[Milian Wolff]

On Monday 08 June 2015 02:20:06 Aleix Pol wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 7, 2015 at 6:32 PM, Milian Wolff <mail at milianw.de> wrote:
> > Hey all, esp. Aleix.
> > 
> > In KF5, we are currently really bad at handling updates to CMakeLists.txt
> > files:
> > 
> > - configure is not rerun (do we want that on every change to
> > CMakeLists.txt?) - this way, no compile_commands.json file is updated
> > 
> > ok, but even when we build/configure manually, and compile_commands.json
> > is
> > updated, then we do not update the json data at all. dirtyFile() calls
> > import() which does *not* create an import job! So no CMakeImport job is
> > created and the json data is never updated. This at least should be fixed
> > independently of how we want to handle the above.
> 
> Yes, it's been on my to-do list for some time, you can look into it.
> Or I will, eventually.
> I was kind of waiting to see if we're eventually going to get proper
> cmake support, but I'm starting to lose faith, TBH.
> In fact, let me look into it now, I'll CCMAIL you if I fix it.

Thanks, looks like you sleep-deprived yourself for me :) That wasn't 
necessary, but is definitely appreciated - thanks:

http://i.imgur.com/LlhENoZ.png

I'll test it later on.

> > Furthermore, I wonder whether we should give "best-guess" results for
> > defines/includes. Assume we add a new file to a project (and do not add it
> > to CMakeLists.txt straight away). Currently, this will result in no
> > include paths or defines and thus bad parsing. In KDE4 we used to jump
> > through hoops in the C++ support (and maybe also in CMakeLists.txt?) to
> > return the includes/defines for any neighboring file in the folder which
> > has some information attached. I think we should add that behavior again,
> > but inside the CMakeManager - what do you think?
> 
> Like somebody replied, it's something far from trivial to implement,
> although it can of course be done, since we're wizards over here [1].
> I'm unsure it makes a big advantage, maybe you can just use your
> energy to poke Stephen Kelly to ready his ultimate IDE integration
> approach.

With luck, I might meet him next week at the C++ UG in Berlin. If so, I'll 
talk to him.

Bye
-- 
Milian Wolff
mail at milianw.de
http://milianw.de