Convenience libraries [was Re: [CMake] how to add capability to generate preprocessed and not-yet-compiled files ?]

[John Ellson]

Brad King wrote:
> John Ellson wrote:
>>
>> Not sure that I'm following the converstation properly here, but
>> can any of this be used to provide access to a set of .o for use as a 
>> "convenience library" ?
>
> No, these variables are used to specify rules for the generators to 
> put in the build files.

Thanks, and sorry for the diversion.    So is there a FAQ that describes 
convenience libraries
with cmake?   I've been making a newbie's attempt to use cmake for 
graphviz, but my
inability to generate convenience libraries is a blocker for me at the 
the moment.

John