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All of my projects GLOB source files, headers, and test source with CONFIGURE_DEPENDS. Haven’t had a problem yet.

• sorenjan 2y ago
  Yet you won't find a CMake best practices text that won't mention how bad globbing is.
  • kevin_thibedeau 2y ago
    You don't notice it on an SSD but glob hits spinning drives hard.
  • HelloNurse 2y ago
    There's the traditional criminal behaviour of CMake: setting a variable to a globbed set of files ONCE and obliviously caching the value ever after. A build system where it is possible cannot claim to be well designed.
    • gpderetta 2y ago
      True. But I don't think CMake has ever been accused to be well designed.