[cmake-developers] why does the order of the options in file(GENERATE) matter?
Erik Sjölund
erik.sjolund at gmail.com
Fri Dec 5 04:28:43 EST 2014
I tried this out:
file(GENERATE INPUT ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/script.sh OUTPUT
${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/script.sh)
but CMake failed with this error message:
"file Incorrect arguments to GENERATE subcommand."
If I reverse the order of the options INPUT and OUTPUT it works just fine.
file(GENERATE OUTPUT ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/script.sh) INPUT
${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/script.sh)
The CMake documentation doesn't mention that the order matters:
http://www.cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.1/command/file.html#command:file
Why does the order of the options in file(GENERATE) matter?
cheers,
Erik Sjölund
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