On 2014-05-01 13:35, John Drescher wrote:
I thought they probably were.  My question was really if the behaviour that
results from that was desirable.  I can't see any reason why they should be
cached as they aren't user configurable variables.  Would it break anything
badly if they were not stored in the cache ?  It would result in more
consistent behaviour IMHO.


Executing

cmake .

would fail in the bin folder if it had no way to know where the source
folder is.

If CMAKE_BINARY_DIR were not cached, yes. But I don't think not caching that is being suggested. It's not clear to me why the *per-project* flavors need to be cached?

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Matthew

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