[Development] Notes on "Qt Build Systems" @ QtCon 2016

[Stephen Kelly]

Stephen Kelly wrote:

> Christian Kandeler wrote:
> 
>> [Sorry about the formatting, using outlook]
>> 
>> Stephen Kelly wrote:
>>> Here's the CMake version:
>> 
>> [ ... ]
>> 
>>>      execute_process(
>>>       COMMAND python ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/generator.py --list
>>> ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/genoutput 5
>>>       OUTPUT_VARIABLE fileList
>>>     )
>> 
>> How do you know where the input file is located?
> 
> There is no input file. There is only an input number. The task is from
> Bo, who gave it as a simplified example.

Oops, I'm wrong here. Bo said to read the number from a file.

I don't think that changes anything though regarding dynamic build graph 
being an advantage.

Thanks,

Steve.