Re: [Boost-cmake] Some issues getting started on Win32

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-06-27 08:08:59

On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 10:31 PM, troy d. straszheim <troy_at_[hidden]>
wrote:

> David Abrahams wrote:
>
>> troy d straszheim wrote:
>>
>>  Things look good.  So...  Dave is it possible you were doing
>>> configuration of cmake in a build directory that had failed
>>> configuration once?
>>>
>>
>> Gosh, I don't know.  Maybe.  Probably.  Heck, shouldn't that work, after
>> all!?  How will our users survive if one failure torpedoes all further
>> attempts?
>>
>>
> It is just a standard cmake gotcha:    configuration/generation fails, the
> cache isn't deleted, and whatever it was that caused the failure is
> preserved in the cache to fail on the next attempt.  You can reduce this
> effect by being careful what you cache, but in this case, well, we're still
> just hackin' on this thing....

I thought cmake was supposed to be robust. This is very discouraging; it
implies cmake developers are only targeting folks who are cmake experts.

Is it possible to disable this misfeature?

--Beman