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@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ run ``setup.py`` directly and expect everything to just work (TM).
The update.py script is overwriting my CMakeLists.txt and setup.py, isn't this bad? The update.py script is overwriting my CMakeLists.txt and setup.py, isn't this bad?
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It's not so bad as it first looks. It's a feature. Normally ``CMakeLists.txt`` It's not as bad as it first looks. It's a feature. Normally ``CMakeLists.txt``
and ``setup.py`` should not contain any explicit customization and therefore should not and ``setup.py`` should not contain any explicit customization and therefore should not
contain anything that could not be regenerated. In any case you should use contain anything that could not be regenerated. In any case you should use
version control so that you can inspect and compare changes introduced to version control so that you can inspect and compare changes introduced to
@ -25,8 +25,8 @@ version control so that you can inspect and compare changes introduced to
remark. remark.
But I need to manually edit and customize CMakeLists.txt and setup.py every time I run update.py But I need to manually edit and customize CMakeLists.txt and setup.py every time I run update.py!?
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You typically never need to manually edit and customize ``CMakeLists.txt`` and You typically never need to manually edit and customize ``CMakeLists.txt`` and
``setup.py`` directly. You can introduce customizations in ``autocmake.cfg`` ``setup.py`` directly. You can introduce customizations in ``autocmake.cfg``
@ -43,3 +43,9 @@ and include the latter in ``autocmake.cfg`` using::
[src] [src]
source: https://github.com/scisoft/autocmake/raw/master/modules/src.cmake source: https://github.com/scisoft/autocmake/raw/master/modules/src.cmake
If you really don't like to do it this way, you can describe your sources and
targets in a custom module in a local file and include it like this::
[my_sources]
source: custom/my_sources.cmake