Automated Build Generator

R. Haschke wrote:

Setting cxxflags leads to the option -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS=${cxxflags}.
However, you also set -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo.
In standard cmake this leads to a combination of flags like so: ${CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS} ${CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS_RELWITHDEBINFO},
which may override settings taken in cxxflags. Is this intended?

I think it is. Lars implemented the current behavior with the rationale that CXX_FLAGS should work across all project natures.

Did you run into problems with this behavior?

As an aside: this project only contains the source code of the generator. The issue at hand is related to templates which are maintained in https://opensource.cit-ec.de/projects/citk/repository

I didn't run into serious issues. But a -O1 option which I have set on purpose in cxxflags was overriden by CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS_RELWITHDEBINFO.

Lets check on a way to remove this default behaviour if any intentional compiler flag configuration is set.

I guess, the template and variable replacement mechanism is not powerful enough to do so. You would need an if-clause, wouldn't you?

I pushed some changes to make CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE configurable along with cxxflags (using variable cmake.build.type). This will resolve the issue.
The default of this variable is RelWithDebInfo (Debug in ci), thus preserving previous behaviour.

I also cleaned up the templates a little bit and cherry-picked some stuff from our lsp-famula branch into master.

If you like my changes, yes ;-)

Thanks Robert. Checked my current distribution. At least your changes do not cause any breakage so far ;)