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

[Alexander Neundorf]

Hi,

Von: Brad King <brad.king at kitware.com>

> John Ellson wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> I've just added it to the FAQ:
> 
> http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ#Does_CMake_support_.22convenience.22_libraries.3F

Yes, this is really a FAQ.
While looking at the FAQ's, I noticed this one:
"Running "make clean" does not remove custom command outputs. Why?"

Current cmake does remove the files listed as OUTPUT from ADD_CUSTOM_COMMAND(), doesn't it ?

 
> Note that KDE used to use convenience libraries and is doing just fine 
> without them.  

Yes.

Bye
Alex

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