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

[Brad King]

Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> 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 ?

I've fixed this entry for the current situation.

Thanks,
-Brad