Dear All, I've already talked about this a bit back in December.
https://cmake.org/pipermail/cmake-developers/2015-December/027197.html I looked at this issue today again, as in our builds we can be seriously hampered by "cmake -E cmake_depends" calls. And then, by the huge dependency trees that these calls create. To give you a sense of the extent of the issue: While compiling just a few files against our full software build (we have a relatively complicated build setup allowing us to build small parts of our code against a nightly build of our full release), I get a depend.cmake file almost 9 MBs large. With the following patch, when setting the CMAKE_ONLY_IN_SOURCE_DEPENDENCIES variable to 1/ON/TRUE, this file size goes down to just a few kilobytes. Speeding up our build noticeably. As far as I can see, the "cmake -E cmake_depends" call is only used by the Makefile generator at the moment. So I only taught that generator about this new variable. I just didn't see what I should do in the Ninja generator for instance to apply this setting. Even though I would be very interested in implementing the feature in that generator as well. I know that the code is not at all generic enough right now. But even at limited functionality, it may already be useful to a few other people as well. Cheers, Attila
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