microsoft / microsoft/vscode-cmake-tools
Cancel reconfigure and restart it
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Description
### Brief Issue Summary
We have a project where cmake configure takes quite some time to complete (magnitude of minutes)
In such a project, the automatic reconfigure when you change a CMakeLists.txt is causing quite a slowdown in the workflow.
The flow:
- Make a change: triggers the reconfigure
- Fix your type: reconfigure can't start until the previous one is fixed
- Wait until reconfigure is done
- Start the configuration again (happens automatically)
- Wait until configure is done
It would be nice if the previous cmake process (tree) can be canceled whenever a configure is requested. (Either implicitly by changing the CMakeLists.txt or explicitly pressing the "clear cache and configure")
### CMake Tools Diagnostics
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### Debug Log
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### Additional Information
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Contributor guide
First steps
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Research direction
Start by tracing the automatic reconfigure request and the explicit “clear cache and configure” command to the active CMake process management. Ensure a pending configure cancels the previous CMake process tree before starting, and verify that both request paths avoid overlapping configure runs.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- cmake, typescript
- Domain
- build-system, developer-experience
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 38/100