On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 10:09 AM, Bill Hoffman wrote: > Jed Brown wrote: >> Thanks Bill. I'm very encouraged by the response this thread has >> generated and optimistic that the Find* modules will become more robust >> without undue effort by module writers. >> > Well, it is not going to happen over night, but I think we are closer to a > plan. I am going to update the wiki with the main three ideas of this > thread so it does not get lost. > > - Standard FOO_DIR for find modules, but environment and cache. Environment > works like CC and CXX do. > > - Add ability to parse compile lines like the ones produced from pkg-config > and turn them into full paths to libraries. > > - Add an easy way to create dependent cache variables, that when changed > unset a number of other variables.
A while back I had opened a feature request on the third item: http://public.kitware.com/Bug/view.php?id=7286 I think it is a fairly simple thing to implement if no speed issues are considered, which I don't think these would be a problem. That is, save the cache before the configure iteration and check if the entries listed in the dependencies list have changed. If so, reset the cache entry. --Miguel _______________________________________________ CMake mailing list CMake@cmake.org http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake
