On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 10:41 AM, David Cole <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 4:56 PM, David Cole <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 1:30 PM, David Cole <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 6:19 PM, James Bigler <[email protected]> > wrote: > >>> I recently switched to 2.8.5 and noticed something strange. > >>> > >>> I have several files that build into a Debug|Release agnostic place. > If I > >>> build it in one then switch to the other the files don't regenerate, > because > >>> the build rule has been satisfied. > >>> > >>> With CMake 2.8.5 and VS 2010 I noticed something strange. It wanted to > >>> build the files in both debug and release. I then looked at the vsproj > >>> files and I noticed this: > >>> > >>> <Outputs > >>> > Condition="'$(Configuration)|$(Platform)'=='RelWithDebInfo|Win32'">C:\code\build-32-vs10-c40\lib\myfile_build.txt;%(Outputs)</Outputs> > >>> > >>> %(Outputs)??? Why is that in there. If I manually remove $(Outputs) > then > >>> it stops rebuilding my files. > >>> > >>> James > >>> > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> cmake-developers mailing list > >>> [email protected] > >>> http://public.kitware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cmake-developers > >>> > >>> > >> > >> The "%(Attribute)" notation means inherit the value from the same > >> element in my "parent". So for a file's attribute, it typically > >> inherits the value from the same named attribute in the project. > >> > >> In this case, I'm not entirely sure why it's there, but it's been > >> there right from the very first commit adding the VS 10 generator to > >> CMake: http://cmake.org/gitweb?p=cmake.git;a=commitdiff;h=7491f529 > >> > >> I can't think of the reason why it might be needed off the top of my > >> head, so ... I'll try to remove it and see if all the tests pass. If > >> they do, I suppose it should be ok to remove it. Does anybody else > >> reading this thread have any other information? > >> > >> Thanks, > >> David > >> > > > > I constructed a custom build command that runs a batch file and > > outputs a text file solely via the VS10 IDE... and there was no > > "%(Outputs)" in the vcxproj file. So I think it's safe to remove this. > > I'll push a change that does that. > > > > Thanks for the report, > > David > > > > This bug is quite possibly a report of the same thing, although, as > noted in the bug, I could not reproduce the problem: > http://public.kitware.com/Bug/view.php?id=12302 > Drat! This doesn't actually seem to help. I'll see if I can create a smaller test program that illustrates the issue. Does anyone know of a way to figure out why VS wants to build something similar to a "make -d"? It would be really helpful to understand what is causing VS to rebuild stuff. James
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