Re: [cmake-developers] CMake, Ninja generator, and ExternalProjects

2014-10-03 Thread Matthew Woehlke
On 2014-07-25 17:05, Williams, Norman K wrote: > There’s also the ‘console pool’ facility that would allow > ExternalProject builds to display output, though that would get back > to the Gmake issue of different processes interleaving output. It wouldn't; the 'console' pool only permits one job at

[cmake-developers] CMake, Ninja generator, and ExternalProjects

2014-07-25 Thread Williams, Norman K
I’ve been using the Ninja generator on Linux and OS X lately, because it handles command output during parallel builds better. But big ‘SuperBuild’ projects — Slicer being exhibit A — which builds using the CMake ExternalProjects Module, have a couple of annoyances. 1. Since Ninja buffers c