[CMake] No COMMENT for ADD_CUSTOM_TARGET?

Brad King brad.king at kitware.com
Wed Jun 28 13:28:45 EDT 2006


David Somers wrote:
> Is there a reason why ADD_CUSTOM_TARGET doesn't support having a COMMENT?

It just hasn't been implemented.  Whoever added it to ADD_CUSTOM_COMMAND 
did not add it to ADD_CUSTOM_TARGET too.  Looking at the code it may not 
be a trivial change because the generators would all have to be modified 
to write the extra lines for post-build commands as well as normal 
custom commands.  The two styles of commands are implemented quite 
differently in some generators.

You may of course submit a feature request:

http://www.cmake.org/Bug

Otherwise just make the first command in the build rule

${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E echo "my comment"

-Brad


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