On Tue, 2010-10-05 at 13:40 +0200, Hendrik Sattler wrote: > Zitat von "Marcel Loose" <lo...@astron.nl>: > > Even if you opt for the "one static library" option, you already gain in > > build speed. Suppose you've modified foo.c, then CMake will only rebuild > > foo.o. Of course, it will rebuild foo.o twice, once for libconsole, once > > for libwindows. But that's already much better than recompiling all 50 > > sources twice. > > Such requests come up regularly. The solution would be easy: something > like VIRTUAL as alternative to the STATIC flags of add_library(). > Cmake could just omit the link step (it already knows all object > files) and linking such a virtual library to a static one just > includes the already compiled object files. That would exactly achieve > the requested features (compiling those files only once), is hack-free > and totally straight-forward. > > Just not done... > > HS > Well, maybe it's worth to enter it as an enhancement request in the issue tracker.
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