Rodolfo Lima wrote:
Hi people, I was thinking if it would be nice if cmake created symlinks
on supported platforms of source files into CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR
when it differs from CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR. My only complaint against
out-of-source builds is that the sources aren't around when I do make.
This feature would help a lot.
Since I've got some time to spare, if this shows to be useful to more
people I could try to implement it and forward the patch upstream.
I am not sure I like this idea... :)
Tools like emacs and other build tools can be taught how to deal with
the sources not being right there. The symlinks will likely be a pain
to maintain. What happens when a file is removed in the source tree?
Who updates the symlinks? I guess every time CMake is run it could
remove them all, and recreate them. Or it could just collect dead
links... It sounds kind of complicated.
-Bill
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