On 2007-03-02 10:03-0800 Brandon J. Van Every wrote:
I am questioning the relevance or clarity of this FAQ entry:
http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ#How_do_I_rename_a_library_that_has_already_been_built.3F
This looks like some kind of historical hack-around. I don't think we want
to be telling people to rename libraries. Rather, we should be telling them
how to generate targets with different OUTPUT_NAMEs, prefixes, postfixes,
etc.
I will make necessary changes / slaughterings if we agree the stuff about
renaming should go away.
That area is obviously a mess because people have been too polite and left
the old cruft in. If your complete rewrite makes it worse (highly
doubtful), then it can always be reverted. So I think you should just go
ahead with your rewrite, and see how people like your new version.
Alan
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Alan W. Irwin
Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy,
University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca).
Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation
for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software
package (plplot.org); the Yorick front-end to PLplot (yplot.sf.net); the
Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project
(lbproject.sf.net).
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