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    ExternalProject: Added new USES_TERMINAL options · e4947639
    James Johnston authored and Brad King's avatar Brad King committed
    Added new USES_TERMINAL option to the ExternalProject_Add_Step
    function.  This option passes USES_TERMINAL to the underlying
    add_custom_command call so that the Ninja console pool is used.
    Also, corresponding new USES_TERMINAL_<step> options were added
    to the ExternalProject_Add function.
    
    Justification: if using Ninja with a CMake superbuild, it's often
    desirable to limit the superbuild to ONE sub-Ninja process at a
    time to avoid oversubscribing the CPU.  Using the console pool also
    makes it easy to monitor the progress of the sub-Ninja process.
    
    Independent USES_TERMINAL_<step> arguments are passed to
    ExternalProject_Add instead of one USES_TERMINAL argument that
    controls everything.  Users may wish to run some steps in parallel
    but not others (e.g. parallelize configure but not build).
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