[cmake-developers] Listing source-tree files encountered

[Brad King]

On 07/15/2015 10:38 PM, Clifford Yapp wrote:
> Lists that contains a verbatim collection of all path specifiers,
> regardless of form, that are passed to the various add_* targets would
> be enough, I think - it'd then be up to our own CMake logic to make
> sense of it all.  I'm not hoping to push our whole
> in-src-dir/distcheck system into mainstream CMake, just looking for a
> way to achieve the current result without requiring the
> built-in-command overrides - I think collecting raw lists of paths
> supplied to targets is the key piece that is currently driving the
> command overrides.

Once the list of all targets is available in a global property as
discussed in another branch of this thread, then you could loop
over that and check the SOURCES target property to get the list
of original path specifiers.  That would handle almost everything.
What would be left for your use case?

-Brad