Ah, I had some goofy unicode character in my shell that was preventing the grep search to work properly.<div><br></div><div>With the correct stuff I see coverage for PRE_BUILD and POST_BUILD, but not PRE_LINK.  I'm seeing problems with PRE_LINK not working in VS 2010, so I wanted to see if it was actually being tested.</div>

<div><br></div><div><div>[5343] Tests $ find . -name "*.cmake" -o -name "CMakeLists.txt" -print0 | xargs -0 grep -n --color PRE_BUILD</div><div>./CMakeLib/CMakeLists.txt:28:    PRE_BUILD COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E make_directory "${CMAKE_CFG_INTDIR}"</div>

<div>./Complex/Executable/CMakeLists.txt:91:add_custom_command(TARGET complex PRE_BUILD</div><div>./Complex/Executable/CMakeLists.txt:94:add_custom_command(TARGET complex PRE_BUILD</div><div>./Complex/Library/CMakeLists.txt:78:add_custom_command(TARGET CMakeTestLibraryShared PRE_BUILD</div>

<div>./Complex/Library/CMakeLists.txt:81:add_custom_command(TARGET CMakeTestLibraryShared PRE_BUILD</div><div>./ComplexOneConfig/Executable/CMakeLists.txt:91:add_custom_command(TARGET complex PRE_BUILD</div><div>./ComplexOneConfig/Executable/CMakeLists.txt:94:add_custom_command(TARGET complex PRE_BUILD</div>

<div>./ComplexOneConfig/Library/CMakeLists.txt:78:add_custom_command(TARGET CMakeTestLibraryShared PRE_BUILD</div><div>./ComplexOneConfig/Library/CMakeLists.txt:81:add_custom_command(TARGET CMakeTestLibraryShared PRE_BUILD</div>

<div>./CTestTestMemcheck/CMakeLists.txt:13:                       PRE_BUILD COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E make_directory "${CMAKE_CFG_INTDIR}"</div><div>./CustomCommand/CMakeLists.txt:113:  TARGET TDocument PRE_BUILD</div>

<div><br></div><div>[5344] Tests $ find . -name "*.cmake" -o -name "CMakeLists.txt" -print0 | xargs -0 grep -n --color POST_BUILD<br></div><div>./Complex/Executable/CMakeLists.txt:97:add_custom_command(TARGET complex POST_BUILD</div>

<div>./Complex/Executable/CMakeLists.txt:100:add_custom_command(TARGET complex POST_BUILD</div><div>./Complex/Library/CMakeLists.txt:84:add_custom_command(TARGET CMakeTestLibraryShared POST_BUILD</div><div>./Complex/Library/CMakeLists.txt:87:add_custom_command(TARGET CMakeTestLibraryShared POST_BUILD</div>

<div>./ComplexOneConfig/Executable/CMakeLists.txt:97:add_custom_command(TARGET complex POST_BUILD</div><div>./ComplexOneConfig/Executable/CMakeLists.txt:100:add_custom_command(TARGET complex POST_BUILD</div><div>./ComplexOneConfig/Library/CMakeLists.txt:84:add_custom_command(TARGET CMakeTestLibraryShared POST_BUILD</div>

<div>./ComplexOneConfig/Library/CMakeLists.txt:87:add_custom_command(TARGET CMakeTestLibraryShared POST_BUILD</div><div>./CustomCommand/CMakeLists.txt:119:  TARGET TDocument POST_BUILD</div><div>./CustomCommand/CMakeLists.txt:204:add_custom_command(TARGET CustomCommandUsingTargetTest POST_BUILD</div>

<div>./CustomCommand/GeneratorInExtraDir/CMakeLists.txt:7:# add an executable which will be called from add_custom_command( ... POST_BUILD)</div><div>./Jump/Library/Shared/CMakeLists.txt:23:    POST_BUILD COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} ARGS -E copy</div>

<div>./MakeClean/CMakeLists.txt:46:  POST_BUILD</div><div>./SimpleInstall/CMakeLists.txt:385:  POST_BUILD</div><div>./SimpleInstallS2/CMakeLists.txt:385:  POST_BUILD</div><div>./SubDir/Examples/example1/CMakeLists.txt:5:add_custom_command(TARGET example1 POST_BUILD</div>

<div>./SubDirSpaces/Some Examples/example1/CMakeLists.txt:5:add_custom_command(TARGET example1 POST_BUILD</div><div><br></div><div>[5345] Tests $ find . -name "*.cmake" -o -name "CMakeLists.txt" -print0 | xargs -0 grep -n --color PRE_LINK<br>

</div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 9:32 AM, Brad King <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:brad.king@kitware.com" target="_blank">brad.king@kitware.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">On 12/12/2012 11:02 AM, James Bigler wrote:<br>
> Are there any tests for PRE_BUILD | PRE_LINK | POST_BUILD arguments to add_custom_command?  I did a search in the repository, but I'm not seeing anything:<br>
><br>
> $ find . -name "*.cmake" -o -name "CMakeLists.txt" -print0 | xargs -0 grep -n --color PRE_BUILD<br>
><br>
> $ find . -name "*.cmake" -o -name "CMakeLists.txt" -print0 | xargs -0 grep -n --color PRE_LINK<br>
><br>
> $ find . -name "*.cmake" -o -name "CMakeLists.txt" -print0 | xargs -0 grep -n --color POST_BUILD<br>
<br>
</div></div>There are mentions of it in the Tests directory:<br>
<br>
 $ git grep -l -E '(PRE|POST)_BUILD|PRE_LINK' -- Tests |wc -l<br>
 22<br>
<br>
but I don't know how robustly they are covered.<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
-Brad<br>
</font></span></blockquote></div><br></div>