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[Dick Hollenbeck <dick@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 09/16/2011 03:16 AM, fabrizio wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 1:39 AM, Dick Hollenbeck <dick@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On 09/14/2011 03:42 PM, fabrizio wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>> following there steps:
>>>
>>> bzr branch lp:kicad kicad
>>> bzr branch kicad kicad_exp
>>> cd kicad_exp
>>> mkdir build
>>> cd build
>>> cmake ../ -DKICAD_TESTING_VERSION=ON -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug -DMAINTAIN_PNGS=ON
>>> make -j 4
>>>
>>> it cause the whole PNG set (and relative .cpp) to get rebuilt. I guess
>>> this should not happen but instead rebuilding should happen only when
>>> new .svg files are made.
>>
>> First, you should only run cmake about twice per year.  Otherwise run only make.
>>
>> If MAINTAIN_PNGS is set true, you are telling CMake that you intend for *.cpp's
>> to depend on *.png's and *.png's to depend on *.svg's.  Nothing is broken and
>> this is the only way it can work.
>>
>> You need to have the PNGs in such a situation.  Nothing to fix, nothing is broken.
>>
>> But thereafter, simply run make, not cmake.
> Dick, I do not understand what this means.

Read what Hauptmech said in his clarification.