BEGINNER: command line option is not working on deps [SOLVED]

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I have a very large project with modules that each have their own repository. The projects are using FetchContent like this:

FetchContent_Declare(
    ModuleA
    GIT_REPOSITORY git@URL:ModuleA.git
    GIT_TAG HEAD
    GIT_SHALLOW TRUE
)
FetchContent_MakeAvailable(ModuleA)

The main CMake configuration as well as the configuration of the modules are using this way to switch on/off the creation of unit tests.

option(BUILD_TESTS "Build unit tests" ON)
if(BUILD_TESTS)
enable_testing()
...
endif(BUILD_TESTS)

When creating the project like this: cmake -G "Unix Makefiles" -DBUILD_TESTS=OFF ... PROJECT_PATH, the tests for the main project are deactivated as expected, but the tests for all the modules are still created.

How can I configure my project in a way, that calling cmake with a command line option will switch of the creation of the unit tests for the modules as well?

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Sorry, my mistake. It is working on the _deps!

It just wasn’t enough to delete only the cache and the other created files in the main directory and expect the _deps to reconfigure. After deleting the _deps folder and having it recreated, it worked as expected.