Re: [cmake-developers] Unix makefile: concurrent build configurations

2016-08-23 Thread Florent Castelli
Well, I imagine we could have a shim that will automatically create sub-build directories when you specify a CONFIGURATION=... argument or just starts the build in there. And if a build folder is missing but the configuration is declared, it would run CMake with similar startup arguments. In pra

Re: [cmake-developers] Unix makefile: concurrent build configurations

2016-08-22 Thread Tobias Hunger
Hi Steve! On Do, 2016-08-18 at 15:37 -0500, Steve Lorimer wrote: > New to this list, so apologies if it's been discussed before. > > I'd like to know why it's not possible to have both debug and release mode > builds configured at the same time for Unix makefiles? You can have an arbitrary numbe

[cmake-developers] Unix makefile: concurrent build configurations

2016-08-18 Thread Steve Lorimer
Hello all New to this list, so apologies if it's been discussed before. I'd like to know why it's not possible to have both debug and release mode builds configured at the same time for Unix makefiles? I am aware that some generators (eg VisualStudio) do allow this behaviour. Why can I not have