Not really recent. It was put in place to eliminate the "command line too long" problem on Windows. It only applies to Windows nmake and Borland make builds.
According to cvs annotate, it's been that way in that file since revision 1.3 in Aug. 2003.... On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 5:44 PM, Dixon, Shane <shane.di...@atmel.com> wrote: > Is this a recent change? I don't recall having to do anything like that > before? I'm running latest RC5. Isn't this the kind of behavior that > verbose=1 should set by default? What's verbose about it if all the > command-line options are obscured from the user in .tmp files that > disappear? > > -- > Shane Dixon > Linux Engineer > Atmel Corporation > > > > ------------------------------ > *From:* David Cole [mailto:david.c...@kitware.com] > *Sent:* Wednesday, November 04, 2009 3:37 PM > *To:* Dixon, Shane > *Cc:* cmake@cmake.org > *Subject:* Re: [CMake] Nmake verbose=1 gives no valuable output for cl.exe > > In the bottom of Modules/Platform/Windows.cmake: > > # uncomment these out to debug nmake and borland makefiles > #SET(CMAKE_START_TEMP_FILE "") > #SET(CMAKE_END_TEMP_FILE "") > #SET(CMAKE_VERBOSE_MAKEFILE 1) > > Uncomment those three SET lines to see verbose nmake output... > > > HTH, > David > > > On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 5:07 PM, Dixon, Shane <shane.di...@atmel.com>wrote: > >> I added a definition using >> >> SET_TARGET_PROPERTIES( MyProjDLL-sw PROPERTIES >> COMPILE_FLAGS "-DEMULATION_MODE" ) >> >> I tried to use "nmake verbose=1 MyProjDLL-sw" to watch the command-line >> come by and verify it had the right definition, but all I get is this: >> >> C:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~1.0\VC\bin\cl.exe >> @C:\DOCUME~1\SHANE~1.DIX\LOCALS~1\Temp\nm54B2.tmp >> myprojdll.c >> >> Do I have a command-line that's too long so it has to be put into a .tmp >> file? I can't find the file after the run so I'm assuming it gets deleted. >> How can I see what's getting passed to cl.exe? >> >> -- >> Shane Dixon >> Linux Engineer >> Atmel Corporation >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Powered by www.kitware.com >> >> Visit other Kitware open-source projects at >> http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html >> >> Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: >> http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ >> >> Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: >> http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake >> > >
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